This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 27 November, 2009.

Steven commenting on When Information Overwhelms Facts

All I can say is, my first reaction to this report was to wonder how many MacBook owners have actually purchased a “Square Trade” warranty. I wonder if it is enough to make this report statistically relevant with respect to Apple laptops.

And John, I’m not a statistician, but you used a lot of terms like “assumed,” and “likely,” and “infer,” and “around,” and “~.” It seems to me the author’s point was not to demonstrate his competency in statistics. If the amount of supposition you engaged in is required to make sense of the report, then perhaps there were not enough concrete numbers provided to support the conclusions which were reached.