From: Edward H. Trager (ehtrager@umich.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 12:53:01 CST
On Sunday 2004.11.07 12:10:41 -0800, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> At 08:29 PM 11/6/2004, Doug Ewell wrote:
> >You've received nine public responses: one from a genuine font designer,
> >two (or more, depending on interpretation) from people who have designed
> >fonts at some time but don't identify themselves as "font designers,"
> >and the remainder from people who definitely aren't font designers. It
> >would be disingenuous to suggest that the other 591+ list members who
> >have not responded must therefore be font designers.
>
> But we got a glimpse of the diversity that's out there.
>
While I agree that the glimpse of diversity that has been provided by
respondants to this thread has been
informative, the responses most definitely do not
constitute a random sampling from
a statistician's point of view.
It would be interesting to know the true distribution, or a statistical
approximation of the true distribution, of people on the list. I doubt
we are going to get that, though.
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