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Re:Octopart Traffic by morris on Wednesday March 05, 2008 @08:31PM (#130193)
A more useful depiction of the error would be to somehow calculate the bias in the Alexa population (my guess, tech investors are the only segment of the population using the Alexa toolbar, which is incredibly ironic).

Huge error bars on a near zero estimate don't mean a whole lot except that the experiment producing the data is flawed.

Re:Octopart Traffic by rms on Thursday March 06, 2008 @02:27AM (#130416)
The biggest niche population of Alexa toolbar users is probably internet marketers.
Re:Octopart Traffic by morris on Thursday March 06, 2008 @02:21PM (#130750)
Also incredibly ironic. These people are just seeing what they want to see and creating buzz within their own community rather than measuring something useful.
Re:Octopart Traffic by npk on Thursday March 06, 2008 @01:45AM (#130384)
Assuming "calculating the bias" is a well posed question (and I'm not convinced it is) then measuring that bias is a noble goal for alexa engineers. Surely this is a multi-phd-thesis kind of problem though :)