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In this case, informal meant a high school student using public data to literally count dots while watching TV, which will have no ramifications, lacks all academic significance, released, nor used, any private data, and which made largely eclectic conclusions. Perhaps I should have asked first, but this is the equivalent of a student looking around the lunchroom and then sharing his observations with a friend. You do something similar everyday, whether you share your observations or not. If it makes you feel any better, based on your profile history (am I allowed to look at that?), it doesn't seem that you affected the study in any way.