With False Numbers, Data Crunchers Try to Mine the Truth. Researchers have devised software that seeks to get around people who lie about their age and their salary. By Anne Eisenberg. [New York Times: Technology]
Not false numbers but NOISY numbers. It's like mixing noise into a channel, and then sucking it back out the distribution. You can't beat a single random event, but for a large number of them you can, the larger the better.
For anyone who was honest when they said they were only collecting data to look at the distributions, this presents no problem. Pay attention to the people crying about it: they were the ones who were ttrying to track individuals.
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