__/ [ Borek ] on Wednesday 09 August 2006 13:43 \__
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:18:08 +0200, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> True. But too much lenient statistics lead to "damn lies".
>> Was it Stalin who said that?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics
I must have thought about a quote that goes along the lines of: a death of
one is a strategy and a death of millions is statistics. I think I saw it in
some computer games, but admittedly it's no game. It's a very serious
matter.
Relating this to Google (not homicide), there is often the danger that the
individual Webmatser will be neglected and instead be perceived as a minor
fraction in a big game... a statistic.
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