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Re:Reservoir Sampling by swiftcoder on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:34AM (#43936552)
Fairly sure the previous poster is describing statistics that were made up, rather than measured/sampled. Those are, for hopefully obvious reasons, not very trustworthy
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Re:Reservoir Sampling by stefs on Friday May 09, 2025 @12:05PM (#43938362)
so, the actual lesson to be learned was more along the lines of "never trust lies".
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Re:Reservoir Sampling by codr7 on Friday May 09, 2025 @06:27PM (#43941509)
Sure, but in this case the lies ended up packaged as the official tourism statistics report from the government, and I'm pretty sure it was neither the first nor last time that happened.
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