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Similarly, the homepage for Lycos, Carnegie-Mellon University's search engine, has a hypertext link to a list of business partners and search results are accompanied by advertisements. Even the Netscape homepage, complete with a link to a Netscape Store," is cluttered by words from sponsors...
...main focus of discontent was a new study, Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway, purportedly by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, which will be published by the Georgetown Law Journal this week and which was a centerpiece of TIME's story. In the course of the debate, serious questions have been raised regarding the study's methodology, the ethics by which its data were gathered and even its true authorship...
...that they have seen the study, Hoffman and Novak say that Marty Rimm, who wrote it while an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon, grossly exaggerated the extent of pornography on the Internet by conflating findings from private adult-bulletin-board systems that require credit cards for payments (and are off limits to minors) with those from the public networks (which are not). Many of Rimm's statistics, Hoffman and Novak argue, are either misleading or meaningless; for example, the study's now frequently cited claim that 83.5% of the images stored on the Usenet newsgroups are pornographic. Hoffman and Novak maintain...
Neither Carnegie Mellon nor the Georgetown Law Journal has officially backed away from the study (it was allegedly placed by a Journal editor who is an antiporn crusader; the university is also forming an investigative committee). Rimm's faculty adviser, Marvin Sirbu, a professor of engineering and public policy, continues to support him, saying the research has been deliberately mischaracterized by people with a political agenda. But Sirbu himself has been attacked by Carnegie Mellon colleagues for not properly supervising his student and for helping him secretly gather data about the pornography-viewing habits of the university's students. Meanwhile...
Your blatant use of questionable data from an undergraduate research paper is nothing short of reprehensible. It is obvious that both you and the Carnegie Mellon undergrad had axes to grind, and the truth wasn't gritty enough. JIM JOHNSON Muskegon, Michigan AOL: JLJPixe18...