From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 15:01:04 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Anonymous questionnaires
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You wrote to my question regarding anonymous questionnaires:

>I don't know if the researchers are willing to change their methodology just
>for you, but it's easy to meet all the requirements you listed:  Put your
>questionnaire answers in a blank envelope and seal it.  Enclose the blank
>envelope in another envelope.  The outer envelope has your name and various
>other information, i.e., everything needed to create the audit trail.  When
>it arrives, the researchers (whom you must trust) open the outer envelope,
>remove the blank inner envelope, and toss it irretrievably into a pile with
>all the other blank inner envelopes.  There would be no record of which
>questionnaire went with which respondent, but there would be a clear record
>of who's responded and who hasn't.

This system would not provide

>  1. Correlate my answers to the answers of my partner.


-- Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>  PGP public key by finger