In totally unrelated news, UC San Diego announced a gift from Facebook in the amount of $X million for the construction if a new computer center... ;-)
Chris ----- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada chri...@yorku.ca > On Jul 7, 2014, at 5:48 PM, "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:21:36 -0700, Jim Clark wrote: >> [snip] >> Perhaps also worth noting that this is not FB's first large >> scale study. Here's link to one published last fall in Nature >> with 61 million participants. . I don't have full access right >> now, so don't know details. >> >> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature11421.html > > Quoting from the supplementary materials PDF: > > |Research Design > | > |The research design for this study was reviewed and approved > |by the University of California, San Diego Human Research > |Protections Program (protocol #101273). > > UC-San Diego's IRB was probably used because six of the > eight authors were affiliated with it. The authors and their > affiliations: > > |Affiliations > | > |Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego, > |La Jolla, California 92093, USA > |Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jaime E. Settle & James H. Fowler > | > |Psychology Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, > |California 92093, USA > |Jason J. Jones > | > |Data Science, Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, California 94025, USA > |Adam D. I. Kramer & Cameron Marlow > | > |Medical Genetics Division, University of California, San Diego, > |La Jolla, California 92093, USA > |James H. Fowler > > In the new Facebook study the researchers came from either Facebook > or Cornell University but Cornell was not involved in vetting the study; > quoting from the editorial that Miguel linked: > > |When the authors prepared their paper for publication in > |PNAS, they stated that:"Because this experiment was > |conducted by Facebook, Inc. for internal purposes, the > |Cornell University IRB [Institutional Review Board] > |determined that the project did not fall under Cornell's > |Human Research Protection Program." This statement > |has since been confirmed by Cornell University. > > But the PNAS editor also says: > > |Adherence to the Common Rule is PNAS policy, but as > |a private company Facebook was under no obligation > |to conform to the provisions of the Common Rule when > |it collected the data used by the authors, and the Common > |Rule does not preclude their use of the data. Based on > |the information provided by the authors, PNAS editors > |deemed it appropriate to publish the paper. It is nevertheless > |a matter of concern that the collection of the data by Facebook > |may have involved practices that were not fully consistent > |with the principles of obtaining informed consent and allowing > |participants to opt out. > | > |Inder M. Verma > |Editor-in-Chief > > My own feeling is that all research journals should reject any > research done at Facebook that does not follow the "Common > Rule". Or, quoting another comment about corporate behavior: > > "We should take off and nuke it from space. It's the only way > to be sure." ;-) > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=37506 > or send a blank email to > leave-37506-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=37507 or send a blank email to leave-37507-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
