http://www.dancohen.org/2008/04/08/digital-campus-24-running-from-the-law/ Covering the intersection of digital technology and research, teaching, and learning in the humanities, including search, data mining, website development and design, and programming. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.dancohen.org/2008/04/08/digital-campus-24-running-from-the-law/#comment-2165 anon coward Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:13:05 +0000 http://www.dancohen.org/?p=280#comment-2165 Re: podcast #24, and the various statistics you cited re: predators on myspace - I'm glad that you mentioned that these stats are often nothing more than 'scare stories.' When some article mentions that 17% of children are asked for sexually explicit pictures, is there any attempt to ascertain who is doing the asking? Is it other children (teens, likely) who are asking, or creepy adults? Methodology is important in looking at the validity of any statistical outcome. Re: podcast #24, and the various statistics you cited re: predators on myspace - I’m glad that you mentioned that these stats are often nothing more than ’scare stories.’ When some article mentions that 17% of children are asked for sexually explicit pictures, is there any attempt to ascertain who is doing the asking? Is it other children (teens, likely) who are asking, or creepy adults? Methodology is important in looking at the validity of any statistical outcome.

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