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Facebook’s Sneaky Apps and Privacy Issues
April 4, 2010 by Dissent
Dan Tynan writes:
Last time out I wrote about about what Facebook Apps can know about you (“That Facebook app is not your friend”), using Lover of the Day as a particularly brain-dead example. Today’s lesson in social media privacy: You may have installed a Facebook app and not even know it.
Recently a friend (we’ll call him “Bob”) [No relation. Bob] dating site called OK Cupid. As he was filling out the form listing his interests, wants, dreams, desires, etc, OK Cupid asked if he wanted to populate that form using Facebook Connect. Bob clicked yes and didn’t think twice about it. A few days later he happened to check his Facebook apps page, whereupon he found one called OK Cupid, which was set by default to publish “one line stories” of his recent Cupid activity on his wall.
Read more on PCWorld.
Well, it get the point across. Something for my Statistics Class to chew on. (The class starts today!)
http://www.penn-olson.com/2010/04/02/the-facebook-story-in-an-infographic/
The Facebook Story In An Infographic
(Related) More statistics
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/59664
Firefox: 30 percent of the world market
Mozilla releases its first quarterly statistical report, which is chock-full of stats a only a geek could love.
(Related) Statistics again and evidence that an age discrimination charge should be added to all those Civil Suits...
Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly
Posted by kdawson on Sunday April 04, @08:49PM
An anonymous reader passes along this discussion on the data for the Toyota accelerator problem, from a few weeks back. (Here's a Google spreadsheet of the data.)
"Several things are striking. First, the age distribution really is extremely skewed. The overwhelming majority are over 55. Here's what else you notice: a slight majority of the incidents involved someone either parking, pulling out of a parking space, in stop and go traffic, at a light or stop sign... in other words, probably starting up from a complete stop."
(Related) Statistics and “cause & effect”
Young Men Who Smoke Have Lower IQs
Posted by kdawson on Monday April 05, @08:18AM
Hugh Pickens writes
"Science Daily reports on a study that has determined that young men who smoke are likely to have lower IQs than their non-smoking peers. In the study, conducted with 20,000 Israeli Army recruits and veterans, the average IQ for a non-smoker was about 101, while the smokers' average was more than seven IQ points lower at about 94, and the IQs of young men who smoked more than a pack a day were lower still, at about 90. (These IQs all fall within the normal range.) 'In the health profession, we've generally thought that smokers are most likely the kind of people to have grown up in difficult neighborhoods, or who've been given less education at good schools,' says Prof. Mark Weiser of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychiatry, whose study was reported in a recent version of the journal Addiction. 'Because our study included subjects with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, we've been able to rule out socio-economics as a major factor. The government might want to rethink how it allocates its educational resources on smoking.' Prof. Weiser says that the study illuminates a general trend in epidemiological studies. 'People on the lower end of the average IQ tend to display poorer overall decision-making skills when it comes to their health,' says Weiser. 'Schoolchildren who have been found to have a lower IQ can be considered at risk to begin the habit, and can be targeted with special education and therapy to prevent them from starting or to break the habit after it sets in.'"
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