[ale] technology/politics correlation?

Brian Stanaland brian.stanaland at gmail.com
Sun Dec 5 13:36:28 EST 2004


While the info used in the report may be accurate, the conclusion
doesn't hold water with my, admittedly small, group of friends.  I'd
say 98%  of them are Republican, though NOT conservative by any means,
and 99% of them use Firefox.

Brian


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:00:03 -0500, Jim Philips <jimmyc at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> I don't want to kick off a political catfight. I just thought this was
> interesting. One liberal blog I read posted its browser and OS statiistics
> from the server logs. They then sought out the same statistics from some
> conservative blogs. They claim that visitors to liberal blogs are much more
> likely to use Firefox or a non-Microsoft OS, with Linux usage running higher
> on the liberal sites. Kos (the blogger) claims his finding are consistent
> across lots of conservative blogs.
> 
> Here is the link:
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/3/11290/0220
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