This is nothing but FUD. The Guv'munt can already listen in through the microphone, read everything sent through and stored on your phone, and even use your body as an antennae to connect wireless to a nearby device.
"Oh but what if the government bricks my phone!!" Stop living in fear. They can already do much worse.
I'm not normally a fan of giving Law Enforcement what it wants, but in this case, their intentions are pure (ish). They don't want to have to spend time chasing down peoples stolen phones. It's the bulk of their time these days, they have better things to do. You don't want there to be an incentive for people to steal your phone. It's a simple matter to disallow a certain phone's ID from a network. The fact that phone companies haven't done this themselves already is the real crime here.
So I RTFA'd to discover that their sample size was 22 diagnosed w/ ADHD and a control group of 22 w/o ADHD. These numbers are FAR too small for the certainty of claims they are making. As any statistician worth their salt can confirm, It is more likely that their findings are due to chance. Considerations like researcher degrees of freedom puts this research in further doubt. Replication with much larger samples needs to be conducted before any actions are taken based on this eye-movement theory. The bold claims they make based on this evidence are irresponsible.
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This is nothing but FUD. The Guv'munt can already listen in through the microphone, read everything sent through and stored on your phone, and even use your body as an antennae to connect wireless to a nearby device. "Oh but what if the government bricks my phone!!" Stop living in fear. They can already do much worse. I'm not normally a fan of giving Law Enforcement what it wants, but in this case, their intentions are pure (ish). They don't want to have to spend time chasing down peoples stolen phones. It's the bulk of their time these days, they have better things to do. You don't want there to be an incentive for people to steal your phone. It's a simple matter to disallow a certain phone's ID from a network. The fact that phone companies haven't done this themselves already is the real crime here.
So I RTFA'd to discover that their sample size was 22 diagnosed w/ ADHD and a control group of 22 w/o ADHD. These numbers are FAR too small for the certainty of claims they are making. As any statistician worth their salt can confirm, It is more likely that their findings are due to chance. Considerations like researcher degrees of freedom puts this research in further doubt. Replication with much larger samples needs to be conducted before any actions are taken based on this eye-movement theory. The bold claims they make based on this evidence are irresponsible.
I want to know more about this theory.