On 2014-07-07, at 3:33 PM, David Epstein wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Jim Clark went: > >> Is FaceBook subject to those current human subjects protections? > > My guess is that they can do whatever kind of research they like, > within the bounds of criminal, contract, and tort law. And they can > issue some sort of white paper and lots of press releases about their > results. > > What they *can't* do is publish their results in a peer-reviewed > academic journal.
I think that this is correct. If Facebook funded the research, Facebook makes the rules (short of breaking the law). Friends of mine have long joked that if they called our research "journalism," they could evade ethics committees (so long as it wasn't funded by the school or gov't grant). That is pretty much why ABC was able to replicate and report on the Milgram experiment after decades of it being assumed that no academic ethics committee would approve it. (The psychologist involved in took the precaution of having it approved by his local ethics committee, but he probably did not have to if the results were never intended for publication in an academic journal.) Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================= --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37504 or send a blank email to leave-37504-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
