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Page from the Center for Solutions to Online Violence. Infographics and a good webliography.
Distrust spreads from unethical behavior. It has real consequences, to many more than the unethical researcher.
How Facebook’s "emotional contagion" controversy led to the company's new research review policy
There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitmen
I’m working on a research project with one of my favorite people, Jennifer Vinopal, and we had to go through the U.S. Institutional Review Board (IRB) process. (Commence collective groan.) Th…
Video modules with accompanying discussion materials that focus on integral components of reproducibility and rigor in the research endeavor, such as bias, blinding, and exclusion criteria.
If you were on Facebook in January 2012, there is a chance that it tried to make you sad. If you were on OkCupid, there is a chance that it tried to match you u
Very nice decision flow chart for whether/how to share sensitive data.
Last summer, Facebook received terrible press for running experiments on its users, adjusting the proportion of happy and unhappy posts at the top of people’s news feeds to see how that effected their moods. Shortly after that controversy surfaced, OKCupid founder Christian Rudder proudly announced “we experiment on human beings.” [...]
Very good section on how data gets swapped around between corps, government, and researchers.
The recent book The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration is not to be leafed through lightly. The volume reproduces 19th-century imag ...