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> An open "we're researching responses" would've been fine. That seems to be highly unscientific/prone to skewing the sample. It probably would have rendered t
by jhgb 5y ago
> An open "we're researching responses" would've been fine.
That seems to be highly unscientific/prone to skewing the sample. It probably would have rendered the results useless.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoIf you can't study something ethically, the conclusion is not that you get to ignore the ethical problem, the conclusion is that you can't study it.
- jhgb 5y agoYes, perhaps they should have hired real people to do real requests. That would have been a bulletproof way of studying this ethically so your conclusion is moot.
- dogleash 5y ago>That seems to be highly unscientific/prone to skewing the sample. I'd argue the emails they did send are MORE prone to skewing the sample. If I had no CCPA plan and got an email from someone introducing themselves as researchers, I'd tell them I haven't gotten around to it, and that I intend to comply but haven't had anything prompt me to put in effort regarding CCPA. If I got the email they did send, that would be exactly the request that makes me go do the legal research, and my response would as narrow as possible.