The original purpose of the Colorado Study was to identify differences that may arise from rural vs urban populations. It also was a test of the methodology. The results were a surprise to me. I offered the rough summary as a discussion point and a seeming contradiction to opinions in the discussion "Teen and Myspace. I also asked if anyone knew of current studies that reported different results. I have not found any "current" study that empirically ascribes "stigma" to an excessive level of Internet use. As the result of these findings we decided to do three more identical studies in other states. The sample was chosen from a database of 2.5 million email addresses first by state, then by age range. While gender was available it was not a selection criterion for the sample. When I stated "insignificant gender differences" I meant the results appear to be statistically insignificant based on gender. I do not pretend to know what this entire study means. We are attempting to make sense of the results, as I write. I will reveal that we did not use a 2 choice model. In most cases we used a 5 choice model. In cases when respondents were asked to indicate intervals of use we used a 7 choice model. In the 5 choice model there was a neutral position. In the 7 choice model there was a "not at all" choice. The thing that surprised me the most is the number of respondents in the sample of 2000. We built in some fairly stringent tests of internal validity and have not analyzed those results. As I said in the initial list-serv email, when we run the survey in the other three states we will publish in the website for my research center. Reid _____ Dr. W. Reid Cornwell The Center For Internet Research P.O. Box 6369 Breckenridge, CO 720.212.0719 (phone) 970.485.5109 (mobile) <mailto:wrc@tcfir.org> wrc@tcfir.org http://tcfir.org