Facebook fiasco : was Cornell’s study of ‘emotional contagion’ an ethics breach ?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/jul/01/facebook-cornell-study-emotional-contagion-ethics-breach
A covert experiment to influence the emotions of more than 600,000 people. A major scientific journal behaving like a rabbit in the headlights. A university in a PR tailspin It’s become farcical. Whoever we ask, nobody seems to know anything. Did the study have ethical approval ? First the answer was yes. Then it was no. Then it was maybe. Then it was no again. Was it funded by the US army ? First the university said yes. Then it said no, without explanation. Why did the scientific journal (...)
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