I have seen this survey before and I have to say I am a little suspicious of how they came up with this pullquote. I do not understand how the 11% who responde

I have seen this survey before and I have to say I am a little suspicious of how they came up with this pullquote. I do not understand how the 11% who responded "have seriously considered" is presented as "1 in 6 have seriously considered." This is from Question 12.a in the survey.[^1] 12 Over the past year or two, have YOU done or seriously considered doing any of the following because you thought your communications might be monitored in some way by the government? 12.a Avoided writing or speaking on a particular topic %% | Response ------------------------------------------ 16 | Yes, have done 11 | Have seriously considered 70 | No, have not 3 | Not sure/Not applicable ---+-------------------------------------- 27 | NET Yes/Have seriously considered 73 | NET No/Not sure "Have seriously considered" is not even "1 in 6 respondents excluding the respondents that answered 'Yes, have done so.'" I hope I am missing something obvious but as far as I currently understand the survey/math this quote is fucking shameful. Getting popular support for privacy protections is not going to happen by giving up the moral high ground. It is hard enough to fight against the "weak on security issues" label, it is going to be next to impossible to overcome "weak on security AND cannot be trusted to tell the truth." [^1]: Page 24 http://www.pen.org/sites/default/files/Chilling%20Effects_PEN%20American.pdf http://www.pen.org/sites/default/files/Chilling%20Effects_PE...