Re: Looking under what rises to the top: personal information in online searches

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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

For IP if you think it is appropriate.

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 EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Looking under what rises to the top: personal  
information in online searches


On 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!







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