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Seems like there are several concerns: the journal, a question of whether the FB usage agreement permitted such a report from being published, and generally whe
by thaw13579 6y ago
Seems like there are several concerns: the journal, a question of whether the FB usage agreement permitted such a report from being published, and generally whether it is ethical (separate from the review board question). Some more discussion:
http://ulan.mede.uic.edu/alansz/2014/07/an-open-letter-to-pnas-about-their-publication-of-the-facebook-study/ http://ulan.mede.uic.edu/alansz/2014/07/an-open-letter-to-pn...
- dr_dshiv 6y agoThe ethical question is whether to do A/B tests privately vs to do A/B tests and publish scientific papers about them. I would be interested to understand the ethical basis for removing the ability of companies to run A/B tests.
- thaw13579 6y agoAnd further, whether to do A/B tests or not, and whether the subject consents, since the test might have negative effect
- dr_dshiv 6y agoHow should a user consent to a Google A/B test other than agreeing to use the software that has A/B tests in it? They run 10s of thousands of tests every day