The Fudge Factor

dorris

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I was inspired to do this little math by beerygaz post in http://www.myadsl.co.za/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4008
Brainstorm:
1. If 6% Of users using 50% network resource is a correct statistic.
2. That leaves 94% using 50% of network.
Based on lines 1 & 2, the conclusion is:
only 6% of users are happy, therefore 94% are disgruntled
But sentech said its around 5% ?

How do we get such a conclusion, simple, Sentech multiplied there results of lines 1&2 by a <i>fudge factor</i> of (-1) , where a positive sign =&gt; happy users, and a negative sign =&gt; unhappy users

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footnotes:
For those unfimiliar with the concept of the Fudge factor, it was an Astronomical Blunder of Einsteins in his theory of relativity. When his research was consistantly off by an amount from what he expected, he added an antigravity constant, to make the results balance the way he thoguht they should.
It was a mistake only discovered 75 years later.
And I would've thought sentech had learn't from his mistakesby now, 90 years later!!
 

SonarSphere

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From this you can explain why Sentech thinks that the unhappy users are the network abusers.
 

ConDamage

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lol, by that I thought you meant we were all getting packed in the fudge, which I suppose is true also.
 

martin

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by SonarSphere</i>
<br />From this you can explain why Sentech thinks that the unhappy users are the network abusers.

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Yeah, it never really added up that the disgruntled users were aparrently also the ones abusing the service. Sentech logic I guess..
 
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