On 3/17/08, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
Complete anonymity is a very high standard. This is honor system anonymity. He told you it's anonymous because he's going to protect your anonymity in the data analysis.
Hmm, maybe. I distinguish between:
1) We will attempt not to collect personally identifying information about you
and
2) We will collect personally identifying information, but attempt to protect it.
If it's 1), I simply need to trust that the information gatherer is not malicious. If it's 2) I need to trust that they are competent.
Not that it's really important - my editing record is public, my user name is not a secret, etc. It just gave me pause...long enough to lose interest.
Steve