[IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 85, Issue 13

[Tony Anderson]

You are a troll according to the Wiktionary definition of 'to troll': 
"(to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into 
combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or 
gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion".


Tony

On 04/17/2015 09:03 AM, iaep-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:58:26 +0300
> From: Dan Tenason<dan.tenason at mail.ru>
> To: iaep<iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar Numbers
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>   A few weeks ago I raised the question about how phrase three million daily users was calculated. The general line of thought in a thread on sugar-devel was we don't know but we think it is an optimistic figure based on the total number of laptops OLPC produced. Further analysis is hard and we can't be bothered to do it. Furthermore, anyone who questions the number is a troll.
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> It would seem natural that an education project which promotes critical thinking would substantiate its own claims. If any organization tries ?to bury the numbers, one should ask why they are doing so.
>
> -- Dan Tenason