Originally posted by Ren H?ek
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Which is precisely why the result for a large enough sample size will only deviate by ~1% from the "correct" result. As someone above said, if Valve was using a too small sample size you would see a large deviation in the results each month. And even in the astronomically unlikely event of picking only Windows users for a single month... try repeating that multiple months in a row...
Really, stop fooling yourself the results would be any better. In any case, why would Valve introduce a bias that favors Windows users, now that they have committed themselves to producing a Linux based gaming platform? In any event they would be favoring Linux users to make it more attractive to their business customers (i.e. publishers) if they were manipulating the results.
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