ZDNet picked up the study:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/?p=131">http://blogs.zdnet.com/community/?p=131</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Wanted to share the results of a study that Brynn Evans and I completed at the end of October:</div><div><br></div>
<a href="http://tr.im/mturk_openid" target="_blank">http://tr.im/mturk_openid</a><br clear="all"><br><div>It cost me about $6 to collect responses from 301 people on Mechanical Turk. I felt that it was important to look into a wider sample size than Yahoo's study which was composed of 9 female Yahoo members in their thirties. In particular, many people drew conclusions from that small sample size about OpenID's awareness that I felt were unfounded and decided to seek out an independent analysis of a larger data set.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The original source data is available here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSGbbhtwI4kOhPusNx8Kycg" target="_blank">http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pSGbbhtwI4kOhPusNx8Kycg</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thoughts welcomed,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Technology Advocate-at-Large<br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com" target="_blank">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org" target="_blank">diso-project.org</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Technology Advocate-at-Large<br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org">diso-project.org</a><br>
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