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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261564 Archived-At: > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:56 AM > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: "Gregory Heytings" > Cc: dimech@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars > > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > Shitty data obtained without care, attention, and skill is useless= data. > > > Forget the weighting! > > > > > > As the saying goes: "Criticism is easy, and art is difficult." Coul= d you > > please create and conduct a "good" survey, according to your criteri= a of > > "good"? Or at least enlighten us, poor mortals, and explain what sh= ould > > have been done, and how? > > Please, everyone, let's discuss this without getting angry at each other= . > That is very important! We have to _work together_ to use the answers. > > The survey does not have a reprepresentative sample, but that doesn't > mean it is useless. I wouldn't attach significance to its precise > numbers, but even the rough quantities have something to teach us. People should not take offense on a description that defines how things are. When surveys are not representative of reality and we cannot attach to them significance, it is disconcerting when the severe effects of that are not being taken forward. I remember criticising geologists interpreting seismic characteristics whe= n the geophysical image did not allow interpretations below a certain level = of resolution. But they did that anyway. A useful reading is "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Ac= cident, and the Illusion of Safety". I am an adult living within the constraints and responsibilities of society not a boy believing that everything is pos= sible. > For instance, we know that lots of users don't want the toolbars, > but a substantial fraction do not turn them off. > > If we want more precise figures, I've suggested how to get them. > But I contend that we can come up with approaches that will > to a good job for the various kinds of users we know exist, > without needing to know the precise size of each kind. > We need to be clever and try lots of options. > > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) > Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) > > > >