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BBC Backpedals On Linux Audience Figures
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<b>Posted by
kdawson
on Tuesday November 06, @01:52AM</b><br>
<strong>from the <b>couple-orders-of-magnitude-between-friends</b> dept.</strong>
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<a href="http://www.worldcup.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">6031769</a> writes <i>"After recently claiming that only <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/133259&tid=188">400 to 600 Linux users visit the BBC website
</a>, the BBC's Ashley Highfield has now admitted that <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html">they got their numbers wrong</a>.
The new estimate is between 36,600 and 97,600 according to his blog
post. He stops short of describing how Auntie arrives at these two
widely different sets of numbers and how their initial estimate is two
orders of magnitude out."</i>
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