RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] web development language of choice

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The best you can ever get is "of our people, the opinion is: ...", and even
that is rarely possible.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Miller [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:56 AM
> To: MLUG discussion
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] web development language of choice
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > I have no doubt that php has solid penetration into the 
> web-scripting
> > sector.  It should be pointed out, though, that a quick search at
> > groups.google.com (aka deja) suggests that, at least as far 
> as Usenet
> > is concerned, essentially only php-related groups have been 
> interested
> > in this particular poll.
> 
> Brilliant analysis!  This is the big problem with this sort of poll.
> Responses are not independent and some sectors of the population are
> overrepresented.  It would be good to see the answers to the 
> question "How
> did you find out about this poll?"  Of course, people might lie, so it
> would be hard to rule out certain effects, but if you found that most
> people said they heard about the poll by reading 
> comp.lang.php, and that
> nearly all of those people voted for php, you'd have a good 
> reason to be
> skeptical of the poll results!
> 
> Mike
> 
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