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2003-03-11 12:41:42
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:59 AM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: A proposal:xsl:result-document asynchronous
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People are easy: sort alpha by forename then surname. That's 
usually pretty random, then pick every Nth entry.

You're joking! Ordering by name will give you a list that is strongly
clustered by age and ethnic origin, and therefore a high chance that
certain groups will be completely absent from the sample. 

Not to mention that in many eastern cultures, forenames are family names and
surnames a person's given name.  To sort by forename would compound the
clustering problem.

b.

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