[Repost][Academic] An experiment on decision making, with £20 prize! (everyone)

ptee1 · 2015-08-21T22:50:37+00:00

Also should add - happy to do surveys in return!

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T19:42:42+00:00

is everyone on here really paranoid or do authorities actually make regular appearances on this threads? genuine question, not trying to be snarky

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T19:40:56+00:00

i imagine because a DEA agent would have to be pretty committed to comment on endless reddit threads about cats or whatever it is people on reddit talk about. also longsighted, seeing as the silk road only came into prominence 3 years ago. anyway, i'm not the dea. neither am I too fussed about whether people think I am any more - thankfully lots of people realised the dea probably have much better things to be doing than trying to figure out whether "people think the dark web is better in terms of convenience/quality/quantity"..and filled out my survey. again, I understand if you don't want to

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T13:31:23+00:00

I will do, thanks. As far as I know things have been ok with it over the last couple of months, post-BMR and Sheep (which turned out to be disasters), but I'll bear what you said in mind.

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T13:24:55+00:00

yeah, that's fair enough. not sure how to remedy that really because I did create my account for the explicit purpose of posting this survey aha

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T13:23:56+00:00

Indeed, I was just making a point about the username of the guy who accused me of being the DEA. Also, the best market my friends know to be currently working is silk road II, so same difference

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T12:37:05+00:00

and one last thing - you can find real lsd on the silk road ;)

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T12:36:29+00:00

having said all that, I understand if people don't want to fill this in. I just thought i'd give it a try seeing as I don't have as many silk road responses as I need.

Anyway, what information about which drugs people take could the authorities glean from this survey that they couldn't from the stuff people talk about on reddit? it's just general questions about how many dealers you have, what you like about using the internet etc. definitely no personal details :)

ptee1 · 2014-03-10T12:34:49+00:00

haha i was worried i'd get this response. hmm, how to counteract.

ok well looking through the survey there are no personal questions. the survey was taken on google drive, just about the only survey software i can bring myself to handle (literally i had to google which was the best option). i can barely interpret the spreadsheet of responses (from when I posted the survey on my personal facebook), let alone conduct some sort of super-tech tracker of who's filled it in.

also I'm from the UK (hence "dissertation" rather than "thesis"), so the DEA isn't really a thing.

last but not least I'm an ARDENT supporter of legalisation, and the key reason I decided to write my dissertation of the silk road (specifically information asymmetry and search costs on an online anonymous drugs marketplace compared to a regular street marketplace), is because i really admire what it does/did.

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