On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:29 AM, CLAY S <clay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Let me first thank you all for your input on this. > > I can understand the sentiment that to give out this data would be somehow > problematic, since it wasn't originally stated that it would given out. > However, if it is anonymized, how does that really violate the privacy of > any voter? In fact, you could even remove a random subset of the votes, so > that even if a voter looked at what got published and saw a unique ballot > identical to the one he cast, he would still have no certainty that it was > his vote. At that point we get into the philosophical realm of asking, how > much do you have do dilute the data before it's no longer a concern? In > some sense the data for these elections (in which there was no warning of > possible publication) is actually _more_ valuable, because if you were to > add a notice that there would be anonymous usage analysis, fewer people > might vote strategically. (This kind of "irrational" behavior is the > subject of a great Google lecture by Dan Ariely.) Why should Fedora make any of it public knowing that doing so will affect the way people vote? John _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
