At 11:50 30/10/96, Pete Mitchell is rumored to have typed:
> It doesn't matter how big the population is - a sample size of 50 is
> large enough to draw some conclusions, given that *none* of the
> French doctors in the sample were Internet users. Assuming the
> sample was truly random, the 90% confidence limit for the actual
> prevalence of users is about 4% I think - though most probably it was
> less than 2%. Of course things will have changed since February. And
> now that the big national medical computerization project is kicking
> off in France, one would expect very rapid growth after a year or
> two. Though it is possible that French users will be discouraged by the
> immense bias towards English-language sources on the Net.
Statisticly, you're right... Internet users among french doctors are so
small than this is statisticly *none*. The computarization project is a
very big challenge, often against doctors wills. It's a hard thing to try
to explain them benefits. English language is a real problem among of us
that are speaking nothing else than french!
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