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Which is which? Facebook’s study was “Does emotional contagion occur?” Right? So that’s “what”, not “why” or “how”.
by scarejunba 8y ago
Which is which? Facebook’s study was “Does emotional contagion occur?” Right? So that’s “what”, not “why” or “how”.
- bobthepanda 8y agoThe "how" is the psychological experiment. The hypothesis is the "what", as well as the "why" we are doing this. There were a lot of ethical failures on the part of Facebook, such as the failure to get informed consent, the failure to review the experiment with an independent review board until after it had occurred, misleading said review board to say that the dataset was previously approved, etc., and all for results that the authors think were not very valuable: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...