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"If a lowly undergrad is expected to get consent before administering any sort of dinky survey, why is Facebook exempt?" The researchers had IRB approval. And
by Alex3917 12y ago
"If a lowly undergrad is expected to get consent before administering any sort of dinky survey, why is Facebook exempt?"
The researchers had IRB approval. And this whole 'scandal' is really just a media experiment to manipulate the emotions of dumb people. If these media reports were phrased like 'Facebook conducts research into affect correlations of user-generated content', which is probably more or less what the original paper actually said, I doubt anyone would care.
- abduhl 12y agoThis statement is not supported by the article: "Facebook said that since the study on emotions, it has implemented stricter guidelines on Data Science team research. Since at least the beginning of this year, research beyond routine product testing is reviewed by a panel drawn from a group of 50 internal experts in fields such as privacy and data security." In fact, it is directly contradicted by the article.
- Alex3917 12y agoI thought the researcher in this case was Jeff Hancock, who had approval from the Cornell IRB?
- spinchange 12y agoThe title of the published research paper is: "Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks."