Begin forwarded message:
From: "Dennis Allison" <drallison@gmail.com>
Date: December 11, 2008 7:36:23 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Looking under what rises to the top: personal information in online searches
If you look at the methodology uses by the survey firm, TRU (www.tru-insight.com), supposedly "experts", you will see that the sample queried was self-selected and most likely not representative of the population of teens as a whole. The study then proceeds to compute statistics from the flawed data they collected and to represent in their report that the results are representative of teen behavior. Naive readers of the report will believe that the published numbers are somehow "true" and find it confirms their notion that the Internet is a bad thing in need of control and regulation. Shades of Marty Rimm! [See http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Rimm_CMU_Time/ ]
<sarcasm> Perhaps what we need is regulation of polls and surveys without statistically defensible sampling techniques and analysis (with error estimates) by competent statisticians. </sarcasm>
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:18 PM, David Farber <dave@farber.net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message:From: ljean <ljean@ljean.com>Date: December 11, 2008 5:07:02 PM ESTTo: dave@farber.netSubject: Re: [IP] Looking under what rises to the top: personal information in online searchesOn Dec 11, 2008, at 5:16 AM, David Farber wrote:A survey (http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/sextech/) whose results
were released today by the The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and
Unplanned Pregnancy shows that a large percentage of teens and young
adults create sexually suggestive photos and text messages--and send
them around to others rather promiscuously.Suggestive text messages from teenagers! We should shut down the net!