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Re:How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1 by jganetsk on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @11:33PM (#707164)
How did you come up with this figure of 95% if you have a sample size of 1?
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Re:How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1 by aswanson on Thursday July 16, 2009 @07:38AM (#707687)
He qualified the statement by saying "from his perspective" which could be taken to mean "95% percent useless in his life" with a sample size of 1.
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Re:How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1 by sp332 on Thursday July 16, 2009 @07:23AM (#707668)
:) I did say "in my experience"! I also called the story out as an anecdote, not anything statistically useful. The 95% figure is an estimate based on lots of people I know, not just the one story.
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