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Archive for September, 2005
The Recording Industry’s Poor Use of Statistics
So, first the attention grabbing conclusion: people that download music are more likely to shoplift and cheat. Now let’s see how well their statistics support the conclusion. The illegal downloading has cost retail music stores more than half a billion dollars in lost sales since 1999, a study by Pollara for the recording industry estimates. [...]
Positive Uses of Involuntary DNA Testing?
After reading Damon’s comment about DNA testing, it occurred to me to wonder: what are some possibly beneficial uses of DNA testing as a condition for something? Obviously, it’s easy to come up with negative uses. So are there any positives? Here are a couple of hypotheticals that came to mind. I’m not advocating DNA [...]