Statistics don’t lie: a survey of browser users (original report no longer available, but see CNN’s report)
But maybe: the people reporting them do
On 2nd August the BBC were reporting the survey described at the top as news – and I had a URL for their report, and their follow-up report on 3rd of how it was a hoax. Both URLs now point to the same thing – rather reducing the impact of the posting.
Well, I don’t see any difference on these pages. It seems both tell the same story. Am I missing something?
Comment by Gokhan Atil — August 5, 2011 @ 6:14 pm UTC Aug 5,2011 |
It looks like the BBC changed the target of the first URL I used to point to the same page as the second one.
Comment by Jonathan Lewis — August 5, 2011 @ 6:50 pm UTC Aug 5,2011 |
It appears that Google cached the original page:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0lSB3eUbTmIJ:www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/technology-14370878
Comment by Charles Hooper — August 5, 2011 @ 7:03 pm UTC Aug 5,2011 |
Charles,
Thanks for that.
Comment by Jonathan Lewis — August 6, 2011 @ 8:47 am UTC Aug 6,2011
I think BBC are redirecting the original article to the new one?
Comment by Kamal — August 5, 2011 @ 6:18 pm UTC Aug 5,2011 |
Are you tempted to suggest that other web-site owners should try to be as quick to correct their mistakes ?
Comment by Gary — August 5, 2011 @ 9:18 pm UTC Aug 5,2011 |
Gary,
The thought hadn’t crossed my mind – but it’s a nice idea. Of course, you have to remember that they probably have full-time professionals looking after the website, and that makes it less onerous to correct errors.
Mind you, it’s also worth noting that the correction includes the observation that they had made a mistake.
Comment by Jonathan Lewis — August 6, 2011 @ 8:55 am UTC Aug 6,2011 |
The CNN report that I linked to in my facebook comment “Fun with statistical sampling and correlation!” is still (correctly ?!) the original post : http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/07/29/internet.explorer.dumb/index.html
Comment by Hemant K Chitale — August 7, 2011 @ 6:51 am UTC Aug 7,2011 |