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Curious though; is Obama being searched in the same way as Alba et al (i.e. for pr0n)? And is this Brittany Spears any better than Britney?
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Here's the demographic info for Yahoo v. Google users:
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You know how statistics tells you high sample size is essential for a low error... apparently the error makes Runescape its abode
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Even in that case you can calculate the "confidence interval", i.e. there's a measurement of the possible error.
In this case, this is not the case. Yahoo did not "sample", they just listed their most searched terms in total, and did not infer a general statement from a smaller sample size.
That's the same if you just asked ALL americans in a survey (of course that's impossible, but just imagine if), instead of just a smaller-than-US-population sample. In that case, you would have a confidence interval of 100%, which means your statement would be accurate to the generality.
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But I was coming from this direction: because more people using Yahoo search looked for Runescape, doesn't mean it is more popular than *insert random celebrity*. Now Google and yahoo combined would add upto probably 90% of all searches (with Google bringing up about 2-3rds of that), so if the combined data showed the same results, then we will have to agree with the data..