Re: Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings...

On 2024-04-06 16:10:53 +0000, Blueshirt said:

 
Academics probe Apple's privacy settings and get lost and
confused
 
Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus
 
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/apple_apps_privacy_study/
 
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Copied this post from another newsgroup as reading the article
brought up this gem...
 
"The authors also conducted a survey of Apple users and quizzed
them on whether they really understood how privacy options
worked on iOS and macOS, and what apps were doing with their
data."
 
Which all sounds fine. After all, a survey of Apple users seems
a fair way to conduct investigation... every study needs some
research behind it.
 
BUT, it carries on...
 
"While the survey was very small – it covered just 15
respondents – the results indicated that Apple's privacy
settings could be hard to navigate."
 
15 users! 15?! That's like conducting a survey among members of
your own family. How can anyone write a serious article on a
phone that has over a billion users worldwide based on a survey
of just fifteen people? Has journalism really become this bad?
Or does "The Register" need the 'clicks' that badly?!

 
Almost no surveys ever have a useful number of respondents, and always
use statistical manipulation and misleading wording to make fools
believe the results are meangful for "everyone". Add to that they they
also usually have intentionally directional questions, drop any
respndents that do not fit their requirements (i.e. whatever result the
person paying for the survey wants), and that some respondents simply
lie (intentionally or unintentionally), and you'll find that almost all
surveys are completely useless for anything in reality ... and in the
case of the reporting of medical studies, it can be extremely dangerous
- some people have died due to following the results of such studies
reported by the news media.