Dr. Udo Schuklenk. Photo by 카지노게임사이트 Communications.

By Rosie Hales, Communications Officer

Writing on behalf of 27 ethicists from across North America, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s philosopher Udo Schuklenk and a team of five co-authors have written a commentary for the journal Nature on a controversial Facebook study.

The study manipulated the news feeds of 310,000 Facebook users to feature more content that was deemed either positive or negative by automated software. The results of this study showed that users who were exposed to less positive content very slightly decreased their own use of positive words and increased their use of negative words.

Dr. Schuklenk카지노 게임 컬렉션�s team believes the study did not violate anyone카지노 게임 컬렉션�s privacy and Facebook카지노 게임 컬렉션�s attempt to improve the user experience is consistent with its relationship with its consumers, despite many users카지노 게임 컬렉션� concerns that Facebook 카지노 게임 컬렉션�purposefully messed with people카지노 게임 컬렉션�s minds.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

카지노 게임 컬렉션�This group of influential bioethicists came together to defend sound and important research against charges by colleagues that something terribly unethical happened when researchers investigated what happens to our mood when the social networking site changes the news it delivers to us in our individual news feeds,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Schuklenk, a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics.

The co-authors concluded that while the experiment was controversial, it was not a breach of ethics or law.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�The study involved no violation of privacy or pursuit of ends inconsistent with Facebook카지노 게임 컬렉션�s relationship with its users. Facebook simply altered its standard practice to detect how emotional content affects users in a way that was not known in advance to increase risk to anyone in the study,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Dr. Schuklenk. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Permitting Facebook and other companies to mine our data and study our behaviour for personal profit, but penalizing it for making its data available for others to see and to learn from, makes no-one better off.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

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