Fun_People Archive
19 Jul
HOTD (HTML Of The Day)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 95 17:18:07 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: HOTD (HTML Of The Day)
[In case you've been under a rock for the last few weeks (where I plan to be
for the next three weeks, by the way) you may have missed all the controversy
surrounding a "study" of pornography on the Internet by a CMU undergraduate
named Martin Rimm. Suffice it to say that many people believe the
methodology, ethics, and results of this study to be severely tainted. It
appears that CMU may have been caught napping however... This Rimm, er, job
first appeared as a "Carnegie Mellon Study" but, now that somebody at CMU has
actually read it... -psl]
Forwarded-by: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Mike Olson <mao@illustra.com>
Forwarded-by: Jim Frew <frew@icess.ucsb.edu>
Forwarded-by: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
Subject: Rimm's index.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/rimm.html
Excerpts:
Number of times "Carnegie Mellon study" appears in CMU's first announcement: 2
Number of times "Carnegie Mellon study" appears in the study and footnotes: 22
Number of times "Carnegie Mellon study" appears in CMU's latest statement: 0
Number of times "Carnegie Mellon study" appears in Rimm's followup: 40
© 1995 Peter Langston