The European Browser Choice screen was a good example of where this style of sorting can come and bite you - the browser choice screen was designed to display a

The European Browser Choice screen was a good example of where this style of sorting can come and bite you - the browser choice screen was designed to display a selection of browsers in random order, but the above sorting code unintentionally biased it towards particular browsers. Here's a good writeup with a bunch of test runs and graphs: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser-ballot.html http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser...