You expect any different? Kids will be kids, and I highly doubt making them put a birthday to make them at least 13 is any challenging task. Some websites do the same for under 18 year olds, and I know that many 17 and 16 year olds lie about that as well. Asking for age on the internet is about as useless as asking for someone's eye color. In this pseudo-anonymous environment, you can be anyone.
-Chad
On Feb 12, 2008 5:51 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
Deni Symonds wrote:
Don't ask don't tell? ;) I think we could say <13.5 or, we could ask for their birth date and if they are below that, save that information and ask no other questions.
This entire discussion is centered around the fact that, if that is done, kids will lie about their age in order to answer questions, thus rendering the results unusable.
I suggested that the questions are asked, but the results are not saved anywhere.
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:09:22 +0000 From: thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Census
On 12/02/2008, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
sure it would meet it--it means we have no indication to indicate they are under 13.
I certainly wouldn't buy that, and I doubt anyone else would. If someone is 13 or under, there is a very good chance that they are, in fact, under 13.
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