Ms Lattimore thanks for the followup and your thoughts. I've mostly given up trying to figure out why people do the research they do, and I've seen a lot worse papers in 45 years of refereeing. We agree that the media almost always oversimplify, and don't know the difference between causation and correlation -- nor such things as biased samples. (I note the sample was not really described.) Back to doing research Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor FRSC NetLab Director Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $22 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________