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Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
by ansy 15y ago
Why does this require students to submit a birthday? This seems like an unnecessary disclosure of personal information.
- Evgeny 15y agoI would say gender should be irrelevant too ...
- sliverstorm 15y agogender could give them all sorts of interesting statistics about what happens to gender ratios in CS when you take the course outside of a traditional classroom.
- benhamner 15y agoI imagine they want demographic data on who's taking the course. If you were running a large-scale education experiment, wouldn't you want to be able to measure how things are going and account for variables such as gender, age, and education level? I bet they are going to look at location as well, via IP addresses.
- esrauch 15y ago> I bet they are going to look at location as well, via IP addresses. Why would they do it that way rather than self reporting?
- charlieok 15y ago...and as we just learned, this is enough info to uniquely identify you, even without your name :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967