bad data better than no data?
observations on our (in)ability
to accurately predict, analyze
or even measure conditions
on the global Internet

3 oct 2000


           the so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but a mere necromancy. 
           people are unpredictable by nature, & though you can take a nation's pulse, 
           you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs. 
                       --E. B. White New Yorker, Nov 1948.

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