2022/09/09 by David Barrera, Barrera, David, Christopher Bellman +3
Decision Sciences · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #Evaluation and Performance Assessment #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods #Health Policy Implementation Science
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.04502
openalex publication_date 2022/09/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We carry out a detailed analysis of the security advice coding method (SAcoding) of Barrera et al. (2021), which is designed to analyze security advice in the sense of measuring actionability and categorizing advice items as practices, policies, principles, or outcomes. The main part of our analysis explores the extent to which a second coder's assignment of codes to advice items agrees with that of a first, for a dataset of 1013 security advice items nominally addressing Internet of Things devices. More broadly, we seek a deeper understanding of the soundness and utility of the SAcoding method, and the degree to which it meets the design goal of reducing subjectivity in assigning codes to security advice items. Our analysis results in suggestions for modifications to the coding tree methodology, and some recommendations. We believe the coding tree approach may be of interest for analysis of qualitative data beyond security advice datasets alone.