In article <cl2u35-0cg.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> it's not the study that's being objected to, is my impression from the
> post, but the payment for it.
But it is only being objected to when MS does it, not when Sun or IBM or
Apple do it. It's perfectly normal to give the participants in a
usability study (or pretty much any other kind of study that takes more
than a few minutes time and is done at your facility) some freebies,
such as software.
This is simply another example of Roy purposefully being misleading
about Microsoft. He posts a few links arguing that they improperly have
paid people, and then he throws in that story, about a usability study
for some software related to blogging, and does it such a way as to try
to give the impression that it means MS is bribing bloggers to control
their writing.
He does this a lot--put one or two articles in a post that support his
point, and then throw in others that have nothing to do with it, but
that, by careful manipulation, will LOOK like they do if you just skim
past them (which is what most people will do). The result is that the
reader that doesn't actually check everything out will get the
impression that Roy has many references backing up his point, when in
fact he has one or two, at most.
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--Tim Smith
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