[plug] Benchmarks: "Linux Defeats Microsoft Windows in Top 5"

[Peter Weatherall]

Onno Benschop wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 18:45, Leon Brooks wrote:
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>>Their graph was drawn by a looney who doesn't understand graphs, but 
>>it's an enjoyable page anyway. (-:
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>That has got to be the understatement of the year. I suppose it's proof
>that with statistics and graphs you can prove anything, even things that
>are not related...
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>Onno Benschop 
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With graphs and statistics you cannot prove anything - only politicians 
think that .
The writers thought it would be rather nice if you drew a beautiful 
curve thingey thru all the (unrelated) points .
Regards