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Misjudgements will drive social trials underground

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  • Michelle N. Meyer

    (Michelle N. Meyer is director of bioethics policy at the Union Graduate College–Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Bioethics Program in New York.)

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A Facebook study that manipulated news feeds was not definitively unethical and offered valuable insight into social behaviour, says Michelle Meyer.

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  • Michelle N. Meyer, 2014. "Misjudgements will drive social trials underground," Nature, Nature, vol. 511(7509), pages 265-265, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:511:y:2014:i:7509:d:10.1038_511265a
    DOI: 10.1038/511265a
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    1. Jukka Jouhki & Epp Lauk & Maija Penttinen & Niina Sormanen & Turo Uskali, 2016. "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment as a Challenge to Research Ethics," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 4(4), pages 75-85.
    2. Puschmann, Cornelius & Bozdag, Engin, 2014. "Staking out the unclear ethical terrain of online social experiments," Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, vol. 3(4), pages 1-15.
    3. Fussell, Cathy, 2023. "Why we struggle to realise the value of data," SocArXiv u8zcx, Center for Open Science.

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