![]() It is well-known that it is very difficult to estimate time consumption people often rationalize their behavior when they are asked to introspect and report on what they did. You cannot simply ask people to self-report how their behavior has changed. Most important, surveys are a poor way of studying the impact of the Internet. There are several methodological weaknesses in the survey. Basically, the study was claimed to show that the Internet causes social isolation and increases workload. ![]() ![]() ![]() The importance of understanding how concepts change in the Internet economy was emphasized by discussions of a new survey released by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (see below for links to the data and to some of the press coverage). When discussing the impact of the Internet on society, it is important not to be deceived by industrial-age definitions of terms and concepts. ![]()
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