Unique Visitors = 1/10th of Unique IPs?

Max Fomitchev submitted a little blog entry where he proposes that the ratio of unique IPs to actual unique users is 10:1. This flies in the face of the numbers you usually see attached to these sorts of things. I'm not sure about the logic he uses to come up with these numbers either.

so...

[gEvil (beta)]

So, he's saying my website has 1/10th of a visitor?

Neighbor's Wireless

[Anonymous Coward]

I help keep this in balance by using my neighbor's wireless, that IP has a load of unique users.

But...

[xpird]

Can he find a formula for the number of /. articles posted vs. the actual unique articles?

Re:nothing much here

[hotgigs]

Last line of article: "So do not trust stats, they ARE inflated." Like I have always heard in regards to statistics: "Statistics are like loose women. You can do whatever you want with them" Although I don't suppose most of us on Slashdot would know much about women, let alone loose ones...

Re:Already considered.

[dietrollemdefender]

...can have something more unique to identify a unique customer by than an IP address

So says the AC.

Re:Just count visits.. why count ip's?

[ceoyoyo]

Sounds accurate to me. Many hands, one brain. Or near enough.

Re:This is pointless

[Churla]

Yes...

But 37.5% of all stats presented by people are made up on the fly.

Only about 2.31% of people know that by adding numbers after the decimal point the average person considers the number "more credible".

So, what he's saying is...

[zen611]

"Don't trust Stats. Except mine..."

The key is not the Ratio, it's the Revelation

[EvilMagnus]

It's that this is a Marketing Person who has realised that IP != Unique User.

That places him amongst a tiny minority of marketing people, even if his reasoning and ideas on methodology are just as batshit insane as the rest of his kin.

I've ALWAYS had the same IP (going on 15 years)!

[sd.fhasldff]

My IP has been 127.0.0.1 for a really long time now. Ever since I got my first internet connection, actually. That must be why it's such a "nice" number and not those horribly complicated ones other people always seem to have.

Re:I've ALWAYS had the same IP (going on 15 years)

[operagost]

I have bad news for you, buddy... I h4x0r3d j00 last night!!!!111

Re:The key is not the Ratio, it's the Revelation

[robertjw]

comes off sounding like a dumbass.

Appearantly not too much of a dumbass. Managed to get his blog slashdotted. He's probably buying a new car with his adsense check about now.