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We should watch out for selection bias, not just read the raw vote count next each wish. After all, this poll was conducted on the Launchpad users mailing list. For example, we know from anecdotal evidence that lack of Git hosting is a reason some people don't choose Launchpad, so he fact that there were only 4 mentions of it here is probably because those other people never joined Launchpad and thus are not on the users list.

(The code that generated this is in [[http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kfogel/+junk/update-wishes/files|lp:~kfogel/+junk/update-wishes]]; see the [[http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kfogel/%2Bjunk/update-wishes/annotate/head%3A/README|README]] file for more.)

Below is a summary of the results of the "Your top three wishes for Launchpad?" thread. (You can also view the raw data here.)

We should watch out for selection bias, not just read the raw vote count next each wish. After all, this poll was conducted on the Launchpad users mailing list. For example, we know from anecdotal evidence that lack of Git hosting is a reason some people don't choose Launchpad, so he fact that there were only 4 mentions of it here is probably because those other people never joined Launchpad and thus are not on the users list.

(The code that generated this is in lp:~kfogel/+junk/update-wishes; see the README file for more.)

Wishes (last edited 2009-09-02 19:17:12 by barry)