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"News media deliberately make people outraged. This ought to be the final straw". I don't have issues with the study in general. You do want to know whether an
by luckylion 6y ago
"News media deliberately make people outraged. This ought to be the final straw".
I don't have issues with the study in general. You do want to know whether and how you can influence people in a positive or negative way, especially if you want to avoid it. There's really no other way to find out than to study it. They should've gotten clear consent for participation in that study, but that's about it from my point of view.
- seoaeu 6y ago"There was nothing wrong except for the lack of consent" is really rather missing the point... In other contexts that's the difference between acceptable behavior and a felony.
- luckylion 6y agoI don't understand the article (and most of the comments) to be about the lack of consent, but about the act itself: deliberately making people sad. In most medical studies, that's not being done. You might give someone placebos and watch what happens when you don't give them the medication you want to test, but you're not giving people cancer to see what helps best. I'm not sure consent would've made a fundamental difference to that reaction to it.