Re: spamonomics
I would. It happens all the time. So what are the methodologies of the auto-erotic reporting studies and how are they flawed? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
Re: spamonomics
I guess the basic objection is that people will not talk about their sexual behavior honestly. The usual assumption is that men will exaggerate and women will understate their experiences. You can read Edward Laumann's book about how the surveys are conducted. They spent a lot of time designing the questionnaires and training the interviewers. It's too much to summarize and explain here. I am not sure that I am convinced entirely, but I think they reduced the bias significantly. The citation is: The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. (With John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael and Stuart Michaels.) His recent work on China is really interesting for economists in that as part of the survey they were able to get urine samples from most of the participants. They found exceptionally low rates of STDs everywhere in the population, except for businessmen, who had very high rates. It seem that these men frequent brothels during their travels and engage in unprotected sex. Laumann argues that this is very dangerous because the economic elite of China has a sexual Achilles's heel, and that it is only a matter of time before HIV becomes prevalent in this group. DVM On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, john hull wrote: I would. It happens all the time. So what are the methodologies of the auto-erotic reporting studies and how are they flawed? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ Dimitriy V. Masterov Work: Center for Social Program Evaluation 1155 East 60th St. Room 038 Chicago, IL 60637 Work: (773)256-6005 Fax: (773)256-6313 Home: 1312 East 53rd St., Apt.309 Chicago, IL 60615 Mobile: (773)220-2760
Re: [armchair] Re: spamonomics
Aside from the legitimate economic reasons for v!gra spam I would offer that the mark-up on sugar pills marketed as v!agra is quite high. Quality control is a significant problem when buying any drug over the internet, that is what are you actually receiving? The brain is our largest sex organ, this enhances the placebo effect of taking a drug you think is V!agra. If you are taking it for a non-medical reason, sexual enhancement, you potentially may never notice that its not actually V!agra. Additionally, people who buy v!agra for non-medical uses are not likely to complain of any problems with their purchase. Ron B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: john hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:15 AM Subject: [armchair] Re: spamonomics I would. It happens all the time. So what are the methodologies of the auto-erotic reporting studies and how are they flawed? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
Re: spamonomics
--- Christopher Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Followed closely by offers from extremely respectable officials in Nigeria who will give me hundreds of thousands of dollars merely for sending them my chequing account information. One can see how the first three products are highly complementary, but I don't see how the third relates. The complementarity is the belief in magic, that one can create something out of nothing, getting rich without work effort or getting something for your body beyond the natural possibilities frontier. This ultimately comes from parents teaching children that there is magic, e.g. Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. If parents would keep it real with children, children would be less likely to belive in getting something for nothing or something beyond the possibility frontier. Fred Foldvary
Re: spamonomics
I've seen almost exactly the same distribution. As a first impression, I wonder if the Nigeria scam doesn't employ the same anonymity (from the other side) that recipients of the first three types of emails value. Tracking down a scam online might well prove more difficult than doing so over the phone, especially in these days of caller ID. The ease of mass mailings might also make email a more effective means of perpetrating a scam. I wonder too if people don't tend to believe what they read over the Internet a bit more than they do other forms of communication. When radio and films were relatively new, people tended to believe what they heard and saw. There seems to have been something of a learning curve for large populations which took them from blind faith in the 1930s to intense skepticism in the 1990s. Perhaps the same sort of thing will happen with the Internet. I know that people often pass along without any sort of verification myriad emails claiming such things as Bill Gates will pay you if you test some software or website, Bill gates will bill you if you use some software or website, Mel Gibson grew up disfigured and in poverty, people will steal your kidneys and leave you in a bathtub full of ice, etc. Perhaps oarge groups of internet users will climb up the learning curve and we'll see a reduction in Nigerian scams. David
Re: spamonomics
In a message dated 1/21/04 3:34:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was so ignorant, until last month I thought Paris Hilton was a hotel in France ;-) Paris Hilton is both a hotel in France AND desert topping! (from an old Saturday Night Live skit it's both a floor wax AND a desert topping!) Seriously though, I had no idea who she was when I first started getting emails offering to let me see her private activities. Not until I caught an episode of that reality how called (I think) The Simple Life featuring Paris and her buddy, Nichole Richie (Lionel Richie's daughter) did I know who she was. At least when they used to send emails offering Pamela Anderson's sex video I knew who she was. David
Re: spamonomics
In a message dated 1/21/04 3:34:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was so ignorant, until last month I thought Paris Hilton was a hotel in France ;-) Paris Hilton is both a hotel in France AND desert topping! (from an old Saturday Night Live skit it's both a floor wax AND a desert topping!) Is a desert topping what they put on the Mojave and the Sahara? Seriously though, I had no idea who she was when I first started getting emails offering to let me see her private activities. Not until I caught an episode of that reality how called (I think) The Simple Life featuring Paris and her buddy, Nichole Richie (Lionel Richie's daughter) did I know who she was. And people wonder why I don't watch TV ;-) --Robert
