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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Because a huge portion of the people willing to do this are already on Wayland, but I believe there exists an even larger percentage on X that are not submitting any data.

And another commenter said:

We’re just left to do armchair psychology about the type of people who would submit data to this site. So the numbers are effectively useless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because a huge portion of the people willing to do this are already on Wayland, but I believe there exists an even larger percentage on X that are not submitting any data.

What is the basis for that assumption?

And another commenter said:

We’re just left to do armchair psychology about the type of people who would submit data to this site. So the numbers are effectively useless.

So because one cannot know which type of people submit data to the site it should be disregarded? That's basically saying any poll or questionnaire with anonymous yet unique answers are invalid. That's a pretty bad argument.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anonymous polls are indeed useless for several reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Man I spent 4 paragraphs saying what you just said in one sentence. 😅