- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:41:19 +0200
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, public-html@w3.org
Shelley Powers wrote: > There is no empirical data to support either side in this issue. > > Reviewing randomly accessed web pages is not a proper study, and > conclusions reached based on this review are subjective. I only referred to that data as observational data; I realise it isn't a proper scientific study. But even so, in the absense of any other data, we have to work with we've got and it's really difficult to reach any other conclusion from that, other than almost a total lack of correct usage amidst widespread misuse. > In addition, there is a looming deadline related to last call, so > there is no time to do proper studies. About a week ago, I tried to start a discussion on how to obtain proper scientific data [1]; sent in response to your repeated attempts to discredit the data we have. But it's surprising to me that rather than even attempt to contribute to producing a proper scientific study in any way at all, you'd rather continue you're attempts to discredit what we have, say we can't get anything else. > Frankly, neither side likely has the resources necessary to do proper > studies. I don't think the responsibility for performing the study should fall onto just one side of the debate. Rather, we should be working together to figure out how to best perform the study and find volunteers within the group capable of contributing resources. We've already seen several members demonstrate the ability to collect data, from Ben Millard's table collections and Philip's various collections of data, to some informal survey results from Google and Opera's MAMA system. So I think it is naiive to say that we don't have resources available to do proper studies. We just need to sort out the details of what needs to be done and do them. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Jun/0851.html -- Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software http://lachy.id.au/ http://www.opera.com/
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