[governance] Majority Of Americans Don't Mind Being Spied Upon, Pew Study Finds

[Adam Peake]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:31 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> The fundamental problem with these surveys now is that a very large and
> rapidly growing segment of the population are not reachable as these surveys
> are drawn from the numbers in telephone books.  So those with mobiles (and
> the demographics that they represent) are very very significantly
> underrepresented in these samples.


Sorry, I should have included a little more in the quote I sent,
actually finished the sentence.  The survey was on landlines and
mobile.

"The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews
conducted June 6-9, 2013, among a national sample of 1,004 adults 18
years of age or older living in the continental United States (501
respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 503 were
interviewed on a cell phone, including 247 who had no landline
telephone)."

It's still at <http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-phone-tracking-as-acceptable-anti-terror-tactic/2/>

Adam



>  Various survey firms are desperately
> trying to figure out how to correct for that but a couple of very
> significant mismatches between survey results and electoral results in
> Canada in the last year have really thrown into question the validity of
> these kinds of studies.
>
> (The other issue is of course, the question that was asked... Pew tends to
> be quite straightforward in thieir surveys (questions) but a quick glance at
> this one indicated that it was a forced choice between security and privacy
> which, depending on other factors may not give a very useful insight into
> what is more generally a spectrum/series of tradeoffs between more/less
> security vs. more/less privacy.)
>
> M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org
> [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of Adam Peake
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:30 AM
> To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Majority Of Americans Don't Mind Being Spied Upon,
> Pew Study Finds
>
> http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/10/majority-views-nsa-phone-tracking-as-
> acceptable-anti-terror-tactic/2/
>
> ABOUT THE SURVEY
> The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted June
> 6-9, 2013, among a national sample of 1,004 adults 18 years of age or older
> living in the continental United States ... etc etc
>
>
> Pew's considered good.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Jun 12, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Simon Ontoyin wrote:
>
>> A contagiously hilarious study. 100 people?
>>
>>

SNIP

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