26 Oct
2004
26 Oct
'04
11:02 a.m.
In message <6.0.3.0.1.20041026005120.024e91c0@pop.vt.edu>, Rob Nelson <ronelson@vt.edu> wrote:
I dunno, I can't take a survey of 347 users as anything approaching an accurate survey. That's less than .0000001% of the population of America.
Actually, .0000001% of the US population would be less than one person. According to the article cited, the poll has a margin of error of 5.4%; so we can expect a 95% chance that, for example, between 32.6% and 43.4% of the population the sample was selected from use unencrypted wireless networks. It is a statistically valid sample size. In any case, consumer host security is a very real problem. -- Shields.