This is an old statistical technique.
You need to know ahead of time which answer is more likely and have a
bias in your randomizer. A classic example:
Did you cheat on your wife last year? If you were born
between January and September reverse your answer.
--
Julian Assange
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:15:18 -0700, AARG!Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the contrary, TCPA/Palladium can solve exactly this problem. It allows
the marketers to *prove* that they are running a software package that
will randomize the data before storing it. And because Palladium
| As a resident of Ontario, Canada, I'm quite surprised to learn that
| Ontario has been annexed by the United States.
Randomized geography. :)
Ontario, California?
I could see where people who read the article might assume that, I
just happened to know that Dr. Ann Cavoukian is the
Said Greg Vassie:
Right now, the rate of falsification on Web surveys is extremely high,
says Dr Ann Coavoukian, the commissioner of information and privacy in
Ontario, U.S.A. People are lying and vendors don't know what is
false [or what is] accurate, so the information is useless.
As a
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Ontario, California?
You will laugh, but some unattentive air travellers sometimes confuse
these two :)
Of course, California is another country. :-).
On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 09:29 AM, Tim May wrote:
Not a new idea. Ted Nelson (IIRC) wrote about using coin flips to
randomize AIDS poll questions. (Have you engaged in unprotected sex?
Flip a coin and XOR it with your actual answer.) I remember talking to
Eric Hughes, Phil
Greg Broiles wrote about randomizing survey answers:
That doesn't sound like a solution to me - they haven't provided anything
to motivate people to answer honestly, nor do they address the basic
problem, which is relying on the good will and good behavior of the
marketers - if a website
On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 09:29 AM, Tim May wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 02:16 AM, Blanc wrote:
Interesting little article from
http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue21/news/random_privacy/index.html:
Excerpt:
How old are you? How much do you earn?
Not a new idea. Ted
At 12:32 PM -0400 on 9/21/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
| Ontario, U.S.A. People are lying and vendors don't know what is
false [or
| what is] accurate, so the information is useless.
|
| As a resident of Ontario, Canada, I'm quite surprised to learn that
| Ontario has been annexed by the
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:29:16AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
| On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 09:29 AM, Tim May wrote:
|
| Not a new idea. Ted Nelson (IIRC) wrote about using coin flips to
| randomize AIDS poll questions. (Have you engaged in unprotected sex?
| Flip a coin and XOR it with
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 11:08:54AM -0400, Greg Vassie wrote:
| Interesting little article from
| http://pass.maths.org.uk/issue21/news/random_privacy/index.html:
|
| Excerpt:
| Right now, the rate of falsification on Web surveys is extremely high,
| says Dr Ann Coavoukian, the commissioner
Tim wrote:
Not a new idea. Ted Nelson (IIRC) wrote about using coin flips to
randomize AIDS poll questions. (Have you engaged in unprotected sex?
Flip a coin and XOR it with your actual answer.) I remember talking to
Eric Hughes, Phil Salin, and others around 1990-91 about this.
[snip]
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 01:15:18PM -0700, AARG!Anonymous wrote:
| Greg Broiles wrote about randomizing survey answers:
|
| That doesn't sound like a solution to me - they haven't provided anything
| to motivate people to answer honestly, nor do they address the basic
| problem, which is
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