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____/ Lusotec on Friday 18 Dec 2009 13:21 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Windows 7 overtakes Vista on PCPro.co.uk
>>
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>> | Top five operating systems used to visit PC
>> | Pro on 15 December:
>> | 1. Windows XP 46.6%
>> | 2. Windows 7 14.5%
>> | 3. Windows Vista 13.7%
>> | 4. Mac OS X 9.1%
>> | 5. Linux 7.2%
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>>http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/354181/windows-7-overtakes-vista-on-pcpro-co-uk
>
> That would be nice if representative of the whole population, but it is not.
> Site stats are at most representative of the site's visitors and can't be
> extrapolated to the whole internet user population in any accurate way.
>
> Regards.
Indeed. It just shows that Web statistics in general are a poor estimate of
market distribution, no matter the sample size (the population distribution matters,
not the number of IPs).
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