Mobile revealed, People, creatures of habit, confirms a large experimentAmerican researchers secretly watched the movements of 100,000 people, through their mobile phones, and confirmed that people are creatures of habit: most spend almost their entire lives within a radius of 10 km from home.The study's conclusion may seem obvious, but in reality the issue is very difficult to study scientifically. The figures given for the first time the investigation is expected to help the epidemiologists, for example, that can provide the patterns of disease transmission, but also in addressing transportation and traffic planning transport networks. The study, published in the journal Nature, but it provides interesting and on human psychology. «While we consider ourselves spontaneous and unpredictable [...] really follow plans, and the overwhelming majority of people the distance is small]» commented Albert-Lazlo Barampasi member of the research team at Northwestern University in Chicago. The researchers analyzed the movements of 100,000 people for six months examining the data using their mobile phones supplied by a European carrier. The records show what base stations (antennas) communicated by telephone or when users send messages. The mobile operator and the country in which the experiment is not disclosed for reasons of protection of personal data. Although Dr Barampasi asserts that names and numbers of users was unknown to the research team, disguised in polypsifious alphanumeric descriptions, some independent experts blame the group that did not respect the privacy of users. Rob Kenny, spokesman of the U.S. Federal Telecommunications Commission, said that such monitoring, for which we have given explicit consent of the users, it would be illegal in the U.S.. Dr Barampasi contends that there was no need to get permission from an ethics committee investigation because the field of physics, not biology. However, Arthur Kaplan, a well-known expert in bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that a breach of personal privacy. «In my mobile phone is not public. My mobile phone is personal. The follow-up, and therefore the monitoring of its holder, is active breach of privacy »he said. Nevertheless, the findings are interesting: In six months of monitoring, 83% of users has remained at a radius of 37 km from their homes, while some 50% rarely removed more than 10 km Only 3% often away on more than 320 km and only 1% travel more often than 1,000 km |
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