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I 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 measur

I 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