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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To see whether a small incentive could influence a decision about privacy, researchers offered one group of students a free pizza — as long as they disclosed three friends’ email addresses.An overwhelming majority of the students chose pizza over protecting their friends’ privacy.

  While I don’t dispute the thesis, this is deeply flawed.

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  • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why flawed?

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      These students are giving away someone else’s email addresses. They may deeply care about their own privacy and not care about the privacy of their friends. Plus giving away just email addresses (assuming there was nothing else) for a free pizza is not necessarily any invasion of privacy as these can be simply made up.

      So I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from this exercise.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also says nothing about the validity of those emails.

      Sure they can have my friend börg.börginson@notyourbusiness.com

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      • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But they did give! They did not chose to deny and not have pizza.

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    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think they mean morally on the part of the student

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