Interesting article as my workplace spends a great deal of effort making data confidential for official statistics. Some of the math behind these confidentiality calculations is beyond me but it really is a lot of effort. This is an area of statistics to know about in research. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: July-11-11 5:37 AM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] nice Chronicle story (U.S.) featuring AoIR-ists <http://chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/?sid=at&utm_s ource=at&utm_medium=en> - including Elizabeth Buchanan (chair of our ethical guidelines committee), Alex Halavais (current V-P, soon to be Prez), and Michael Zimmer. Congrats, dear colleagues! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/