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Facebook is founded in 2004. The study was published in 2013. Yet, the study claims it has data from users for a period of 20-y? How did the study begin with 689,003 participants? When the facebook…
Facebook is founded in 2004. The study was published in 2013. Yet, the study claims it has data from users for a period of 20-y? How did the study begin with 689,003 participants? When the facebook…
I suspect that it's more the public attention than any one letter that was effective. One of my colleagues said to me that an "expression of concern" sounds like something from one of Hallmark's…
Your letter to the editor was quite effective!An expression of concern was published (pdf download):http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/07/02/1412469111...
Leaving the consent questions aside, I wonder about the claim from this study: "...This observation, and the fact that people were more emotionally positive in response to positive emotion updates…
I am surprised that PNAS did not require a statement on research ethics and include information on IRB clearances.
Some measured commentary is available here:http://thomasleeper.com/2014/06/facebook-ethics/Quote: "But, if we step back from our gut reactions to this study, it's important to realize that these…
Cornell now says Hancock joined study after the data was collected and had access "only to results ??" and not to any data at any time..." so Cornell IRB concluded no review was needed:http://mediarela…
This response suggests that Facebook conducted the research without IRB oversight, *then* the researchers from UCSF and Cornell came on board to examine the data...
According to the paper's editor, Susan Fiske, the study received IRB approval from Cornell for a pre-existing data set. http://www...
A letter that Art Caplan and I just sent to the editors:To the editor:We wish to ask two questions regarding the recently-published article by Kramer, Guillory, and Hancock, "Experimental evidence of…
Facebook users are understandably upset that their emotional states were manipulated without their consent. Obviously certain experimental designs preclude, or even necessitate, that researchers…