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Re: [Asrg] Requirements for gathering statistics

2003-03-26 14:37:14
At 9:51 AM -0500 3/26/03, Alan DeKok wrote:
 > I did not say do nothing.  I simply pointed out that you should
 realize that there is going to be a lot of error in some of those
 numbers.

  Not exactly.  The questions which are asked should be such that any
answers will contain little measurement error.  They may contain
system errors, but since we have no way of quantifying them, there's
little we can do to deal with them.

I guess that when asking how much spam they have, we should also be sure to ask how they are measuring that. Assuming we have some false negative/false positive data on some tools, so that should enable us to adjust the results accordingly.
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everyone else's.
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