Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:56 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>
> Cc: dimech@gmx.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs Survey: Toolbars
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>   > > Shitty data obtained without care, attention, and skill is useless data.
>   > > Forget the weighting!
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>   > As the saying goes: "Criticism is easy, and art is difficult."  Could you
>   > please create and conduct a "good" survey, according to your criteria of
>   > "good"?  Or at least enlighten us, poor mortals, and explain what should
>   > have been done, and how?
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> Please, everyone, let's discuss this without getting angry at each other.
> That is very important!  We have to _work together_ to use the answers.
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> The survey does not have a reprepresentative sample, but that doesn't
> mean it is useless.  I wouldn't attach significance to its precise
> numbers, but even the rough quantities have something to teach us.
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> For instance, we know that lots of users don't want the toolbars,
> but a substantial fraction do not turn them off.
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> If we want more precise figures, I've suggested how to get them.
> But I contend that we can come up with approaches that will
> to a good job for the various kinds of users we know exist,
> without needing to know the precise size of each kind.
> We need to be clever and try lots of options.

Fully agree with that - doing a good job for the various kinds of users
we know exist.

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