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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I was talking about the way it was worded.

But about those studies and data-- can any of that be published? As a former Nokia data analyst myself, I'd be interested in seeing how the tests were designed and conducted, as well as the resulting data. Can that be shared with the community? At least in part?
Umm, it's an interesting request, but I'm afraid that would be really tricky. They are written based on the understanding that it's ok to refer to internal documents (also to other internal projects and to their UI's). That would make it very hard to publish them without filtering them verty carefully. And then again, it's hard to see what Nokia would gain from publishing them, whilst it's easy to see the negative sides for publishing them (competitive intelligence, company processes, subcontractors etc.).

Selective publication would then again not be very fruitful: of course we could just pick "the best ones", but that's then virtually useless to anyone else. The real value of testing imho comes from the sequence of one test following each other and observing how test results vary based on the changes done based on previous feedback.