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Yes, I consider it an _excellent_ participation rate. A 5.5% sample size is orders of magnitude larger than that of nearly any sociological study (usually below

Yes, I consider it an _excellent_ participation rate. A 5.5% sample size is orders of magnitude larger than that of nearly any sociological study (usually below 0.01%). Passive users by definition agree to follow the active users' decision.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> A 5.5% sample size is orders of magnitude larger than that of nearly any sociological study (usually below 0.01%). Sociological studies tend to actively seek limited size representative samples for cost reasons, and because the mathematics demonstrating the power of a limited size representative sample for making generalization about the universe from which the sample is drawn is well-known. Comparing the size (relative to the represented universe) of a study sample actively selected to be representative with the relative size of a participant group for which there is little reason to expect it to be representative is not particularly meaningful.
matthewbauer 10y ago
I feel like "passive users" would agree with the status quo? They don't care enough to vote for the fork, so they should have counted as voting against the forks.
- onestone 10y ago
  By that logic there should be no Brexit, as less than 50% of the eligible voters voted for it.
  - EdHominem 10y ago
    Exactly right. But the same logic would apply to the Bentrance in the first place, etc.
- zeven7 10y ago
  No vote means they don't care enough to say either way. Why would anyone who feels strongly against the fork say "I will now let everyone know how much I'm against the fork by not voting"? That's not how it works. Furthermore, it's been well known for the past 2 weeks that the fork was likely to happen. That means the fork was the status quo. It's what was going to happen assuming nothing derailed it. I'm an ETH holder and I didn't vote. I was undecided and was happy enough with the decision to fork.

dragonwriter 10y ago

> A 5.5% sample size is orders of magnitude larger than that of nearly any sociological study (usually below 0.01%). Sociological studies tend to actively seek limited size representative samples for cost reasons, and because the mathematics demonstrating the power of a limited size representative sample for making generalization about the universe from which the sample is drawn is well-known. Comparing the size (relative to the represented universe) of a study sample actively selected to be representative with the relative size of a participant group for which there is little reason to expect it to be representative is not particularly meaningful.

matthewbauer 10y ago

I feel like "passive users" would agree with the status quo? They don't care enough to vote for the fork, so they should have counted as voting against the forks.

onestone 10y ago
By that logic there should be no Brexit, as less than 50% of the eligible voters voted for it.
- EdHominem 10y ago
  Exactly right. But the same logic would apply to the Bentrance in the first place, etc.
zeven7 10y ago
No vote means they don't care enough to say either way. Why would anyone who feels strongly against the fork say "I will now let everyone know how much I'm against the fork by not voting"? That's not how it works. Furthermore, it's been well known for the past 2 weeks that the fork was likely to happen. That means the fork was the status quo. It's what was going to happen assuming nothing derailed it. I'm an ETH holder and I didn't vote. I was undecided and was happy enough with the decision to fork.