On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:30:00 -0500 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> articulated:
> On 02/03/2011 04:07 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > On 2/3/11 3:59 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > >> * most people just need a simple identity-driven OpenPGP > >> certificate, one that matches their name and e-mail address. > > > > Whenever people talk about what "most users" need, I have to ask to > > see the user survey that's showing this. History has shown that > > technically sophisticated users' ideas of what "real users" need > > tends to not correlate very tightly with what "real users" say they > > need. > > my "user survey" is from several years of trying to personally help > dozens of people of all skill levels learn how to use OpenPGP for > secure messaging. Regardless of the intelligence or technical savvy > of the people i've personally helped get more comfortable with > OpenPGP, i believe all of them have been baffled by the Comment: > prompt. Statistically speaking, a few dozen users is not very meaningful. Furthermore, did you have a test group to compare these results against? In addition, did any one who claimed to be knowledgeable with the concepts of PGP ask you for assistance? Probably not which causes your statistical analyses to be in error. It reminds me of the famous Coke a Cola debacle in the 80's. Their analysis was so flawed that they eventually fired everyone involved in the fiasco, not to mention the fact that they lost millions of dollars. In any case, statistics can be made to represent anything you want them to. If 5% of a group suffers from constipation does that mean the remaining 95% enjoys it? -- Jerry ✌ gnupg.u...@seibercom.net _____________________________________________________________________ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. Q: What is the difference between Texas and yogurt? A: Yogurt has culture.
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