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Do you really need samples from that many users? Wouldn't a sampling of a few thousand users give you more or less the same results as a sampling from a few mil
by swebs 6y ago
Do you really need samples from that many users? Wouldn't a sampling of a few thousand users give you more or less the same results as a sampling from a few million? And if not, is it worth the bad will you're earning from your users by treating them like this?
- dudus 6y agoFor websites and online businesses yes you need as much data as possible. For free software I agree, I don't see a use case
- clusterfish 6y agoA random sample – sure, if you have enough traffic to still get decent sample size, but a sample obtained by users opting in is often close to worthless because it's not random and so not representative of your userbase.
- mekster 6y agoI don't think people who opt-in for such a telemetry is as equally distributed as totally random people who didn't opt-out. The average users that you want to target don't really change those settings.