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Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users

Posted by michael on from the nuisance-factor dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'About a third of people responded to a spam, seeking more information. And 7 percent actually bought a product or service.' Who are these people? Is this really what non-techies do with Spam? They can have my Spam if they want it :-)"

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  1. In partial defense by siskbc · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    I think you meant to say "median" there, since the mean IQ is just the simple average across the population. The median value is the dividing line of the two halves.

    The IQ scheme was set up assuming an approximately Gaussian distribution, for which the mean and median are the same. 15 IQ points = 1 standard deviation.

    Naturally, that's horseshit, but 100 was at least designed to be the median and the mean, by definition.

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