Some Statistics on People and Organizations? LO27848

From: AM de Lange (amdelange@gold.up.ac.za)
Date: 02/15/02


Replying to LO27827 --

Dear Organlearners,

Scott Simmerman <Scott@squarewheels.com> writes:

>Just thought I'd pop back onto the list and ask the
>rhetorical question as to how / why my request for
>Some Statistics on People and Organizations has
>migrated itself nicely into a discussion about the
>issues of using the statistics and the philosophy of
>change but that there have been NO statistics posted,
>which was the main theme of my original request!
>...grin...

Greetings dear Scot,

Here are some stats why your request fell on deaf ears. As you will see,
it is just not done on internet. It is a taboo!

I have used Google's advanced search engine and began to look for how many
hits the name Scott will give -- 12+ million! So I began to prune the hits
by adding keyword for key word to it as shown. Finally I put in the second
window (exact phrase) the the requirement "statistical detail".

Scott -- 12 400 000
Scott fun -- 1 070 000
Scott fun statistics -- 73 200
Scott fun statistics people -- 46 900
Scott fun statistics people organisations --1 630
Scott fun statistics people organisations "statistical detail" 2.

You are lucky to get so many hits -- 2 to be precise. It shows what one
can do with stats! ... grin ...

Even here the 2 hits are wrong since if the word "fundamental" is
hyphenated into "fun-damental", Google's spiders will pick up the fun as
"fun" and not as "fundamental". So much for stats.

With care and best wishes,

-- 

At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa

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