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"Here's the raw data. Firefox beats Chrome and I don't like that result, so let's fudge with the data a little bit."

"Look, now Chrome is beating Firefox. But IE still isn't losing yet, so let's make up some reasoning and fudge some more until we're happy!"

"Ah, that's better, now IE looks like it sucks and my worldview is no longer shattered. Hooray for fudging data to make it say what we want it to!"

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Firefox never beat chrome, and I like both of them the same amount.

When I first did the data dive, I thought Safari was worse than IE, which I thought made a much better blog post. That would have been way more surprising. It was after due diligence that I was forced to discard that result.

Firefox 4 and 5 in the first graph are significantly lower than Chrome. Obviously it's a pretty dodgy comparison to make since Chrome isn't split by versions, but I agree with hammock that it seems statistically unsound to arbitrarily drop some versions of some browsers, especially when they can't do the same for the Chrome results.

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