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

[michael gurstein]

Thanks for that, it looks a quite sophisticated attempt to get around the
cell issue I was pointing to... I`ll be interested to see some analyses of
how well this approach is able to handle it and if it introduces (and is
able to control for) other related sources of potential bias (demographics,
income, geography etc.). 

M

-----Original Message-----
From: apeake at gmail.com [mailto:apeake at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Adam Peake
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:38 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Majority Of Americans Don't Mind Being Spied Upon,
Pew Study Finds

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-tracki
> ng-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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