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Originally Posted by Pardoz
It doesn't matter how common the thing being studied is in general if you're only studying a subset of the population. Consider: smoking crack cocaine is a disorder, not considered normative behaviour, and comparatively rare in the 'real world'; it is, however, extremely common behaviour in crack houses.
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This analogy is only relevent if one is discussing "file-sharing" itself and not a specific behavioural trait with regards to file-sharing in general. I imagine in file-sharing circles/communities, file-sharing is very common just as smoking crack in crack houses is common.
However, just like smoking crack through ones butt hole is not a very common specific behavioural trait, even in crack houses, I wonder if hoarding/compulsive downloading is in fact a common behaviour within file-sharing communities, as is so often claimed or suggested.
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Originally Posted by Pardoz
When you're talking about how many file-sharers are compulsive hoarders, it really doesn't matter what percentage of the non-file-sharing population are compulsive hoarders. And I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the percentages are much, much higher than the norm in the file-sharing group.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage is marginally higher. If my experience, and the experience of those I am familiar with, is anything to go by, I would be very surprised if this increase was enough to be of any statistical significance.
Cheers,
PKFFW