Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 9:53 AM
> From: "Adrien Brochard" <abrochard@gmx.com>
> To: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
>
> > Majority of users for the survey, if I remember well, came from
> > Reddit. There was description where it was marketed mostly.
> >
> > Thus survey is not general Emacs survey, it is survey of mostly Reddit
> > users who may be or probably are more skillful.
>
> What makes you think that people coming from the Reddit channel are more
> skillful? If someone googles an Emacs question, getting directed to
> r/emacs and finding the survey there is pretty likely.
>
> > If it would be general Emacs survey with general group of users mixed
> > with beginners, intermediate and advanced users and they all say by
> > majority they need no tool bar that would be valid information.
> >
> > It looks that it is just specific group of more than intermediate
> > users of Emacs that disable toolbar.
>
> You guys should look into weighting adjustment of the data if you think
> a population is over-represented.

Shitty data obtained without care, attention, and skill is useless data.  
Forget the weighting!