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I was just reading this article about Kogan https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/24/cambridge-analytica-academics-work-upset-university-colleagues htt

I was just reading this article about Kogan https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/24/cambridge-analytica-academics-work-upset-university-colleagues https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/mar/24/cambridge-... The article is a bit confusing for me, it suggests that Kogan initially went to the parent company of CA and asked for $500,000 for the data+modelling, and they refused? It's not entirely clear, but at some point some money must have changed hands for the work, the thing that surprises me the most is even with figures like $500k being bandied about, is that the going rate for stuff like this these days?

jaclaz 9y ago
Thank you for the article, very interesting. At first read I had the impression that Kogan was criticized on an "ethical" base, then re-reading it, I understood that they were only arguing on how to divide the loot. If SCL actually had given 1 million, half to Kogan and 1/4 each to Kosinski and Stilwell, we wouldn't have the mails. >The correspondence reveals the deep anxiety among university psychologists over the activities of Kogan, ... Deep anxiety over the activities my sock, they wanted US$ 500,000 and were proposed only US$ 100,000 instead, and there started the disagreement ...