Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics About Privacy Hysteria

It is frighteningly easy to dupe the public with statistics, since most journalists and readers aren't trained in all the sophisticated ways pollsters can make subtle changes to research that make a gigantic difference in the outcome. Recently, a near-paranoid picture of the American public made its way around the media cycle, thanks to a "study" by TrustE, a web security company, on privacy. Since we know you want to be intelligent readers, and you can't always depend on journalists to recognize a bad statistic, we thought we'd show you how to spot a misleading study using the report's glaringly bad methodology.

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