> we recruited 216 undergraduate volunteers
> we had the participants fill out a questionnaire (~15 questions that LITERALLY ask you if you feel depressed. so, the survey asks you "hey, are you depressed?" about fifteen times, with various wordings.)
> 30 percent of the participants met the criteria for depressive symptoms
Okay. Sounds reliably conclusive.
> Next, we had the university’s information technology department provide us with campus Internet usage data for our participants for February. This didn’t mean snooping on what the students were looking at or whom they were e-mailing; it merely meant monitoring how they were using the Internet.
...how "they" were using the internet. During February. In Missouri.
> the more a participant’s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included ... “p2p packets”
O RLY
> By Sriram Chellappan (professor of computer science) and Raghavenra Kotikalapudi (software development engineer), IEEE
Pretty striking that they correlate fear mongering with file sharing, and then draw a line connecting to eavesdropping and traffic analysis. Is this article MPAA/RIAA propaganda? I can't tell.
Okay. Sounds reliably conclusive.
> Next, we had the university’s information technology department provide us with campus Internet usage data for our participants for February. This didn’t mean snooping on what the students were looking at or whom they were e-mailing; it merely meant monitoring how they were using the Internet.
...how "they" were using the internet. During February. In Missouri.
> the more a participant’s score on the survey indicated depression, the more his or her Internet usage included ... “p2p packets”
O RLY
> By Sriram Chellappan (professor of computer science) and Raghavenra Kotikalapudi (software development engineer), IEEE
Pretty striking that they correlate fear mongering with file sharing, and then draw a line connecting to eavesdropping and traffic analysis. Is this article MPAA/RIAA propaganda? I can't tell.