Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

> Bom's spokesperson told the BBC it had received about 400,000 items of feedback on the new site, which accounted for less than 1% of the 55 million visits in the past month.

This is a _remarkably_ bad attempt to make the complaints look reduced in comparison to usage. Amazing that any organisation would try this line.



Why do you think this is so remarkably bad? I’m not saying I disagree I’m just not sure I understand where you’re coming from and I’m curious.


The base rate of giving feedback on a weather website has to be incredibly low. I've never done it in my life. It's kind of like saying that less than 1% of constituents have phoned their congressperson about Bill XYZ; doesn't really mean anything. If every one of those visits is a page load or something 1% would be incredibly high.


Because it implicitly suggests that 99% of the visitors are happy with the website. Without knowing the number of unique visitors during that month, and the number of people that complained, this is meaningless.


Not sure this needs any explanation! Most people don't give feedback to a weather site. 400K items of feedback is a tsunami of feedback.


400,000 items is feedback is a very large number.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: