ooook I follow ya. I guess if he's compaing VFP to IT in general that's one thing. I'd still be curious to know how VFP conferences stack up to other conferences for different languages though.

>>Riiiiight....but comparing those two makes no sense.
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>It makes perfect sense since his point is to compare VFP to IT in general.
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>> It's like if you wake up in the morning and stub your toe and it was raining outside suddenly coming up with a statistic that says if you stub your toe its more likely to rain.
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>Steve is simply attempting to co-relate two groups. Your example is flawed because it is an example of (attempted) causation.
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>> The compaing should be between two software developer conferences for different languages, such as VFP and VB,
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>That would not show the point he was trying to make. He is not comparing VFP to VB or any one product, but to IT in general.
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>>in the same part of the USA.
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>Both Advisor and Comdex are both international (to a degree) in scope. So his argument holds. They both cover roughly the same population base.