Saturday, November 15, 2008

Ever wondered why Americans are more “private” than the BRIC countries

Ever wondered why Americans are more “private” than the BRIC countries..
I found a interesting hypothesis on how the attitudes of people towards privacy ( broadly in terms of social network) of different countries in world !!






India could be seen as both highly social and also not afraid of government action. And Brazil would be highly social (Gaurav calls Indians and Brazilians “hyper-social”), but Brazilians seem somewhat afraid of government action (see their recent wiretapping scandals).
This model has lot of questions unanswered but I really appreciate the thought process in collecting data..read further for more information
https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/blogs/isdyahoofellow/hypotheses-about-privacy-attitudes/

1 comment:

Gauravonomics said...

Thanks, Praveen, for the link-love. At least someone is reading our fellowship blog. :-)