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Technology & Hardware / iPhone 5
« on: November 15, 2012, 01:50:37 am »Quote from: Bell;1508835
lol, is it really?
Did you just see a small number and therefore completely dismiss it? Some good Fox News logic there.
That number represents the increased chance of an app failing between andriod and apple per run.
The fail rate at worst is only %3.6 so %0.69 is actually a significant proportional difference.
Put into proportional terms.... A 3rd quartile IOS app is %20 more likely to fail on startup compared to an Andriod App
And how about looking at the 1st quartile, the top tier IOS apps are 3.4 times more likely to crash compared to their Andriod counterparts.
Which I don't think is splitting hairs and if true is very good rebuttal to what Berg said.
Yeah pretty much this.
I think a lot of people get confused when dealing with percentages of a percentage. Honestly when I mark 100-level papers, I have not seen a single person get it right.
Say I (hypothetically) get a sample of 100 for a survey of transportation methods. I find that 75 people primarily use a car, and 15 people primarily use a motorbike (i.e. 75% and 15% respectively).
Now the absolute difference between these two figures is 60 percentage points. It should be clear, however, that it's not correct to say 60% more people use a car than a motorbike.
From those figures 400% more people primarily use cars than motorbikes.
In the same way, Bell is just so right in pointing out that, actually, top tier iOS apps are 240% more likely to crash than their Android equivalents. The contrast between 1st quartile apps is actually the most stark, although there is clearly a floor effect (i.e. an app can't crash less than 0% of the time).
But yeah, educational rant, hopefully someone learns something about data analysis.
