[Foundation-l] reply to John Vandenberg's question re RCom and image filter

WereSpielChequers werespielchequers at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 08:43:06 UTC 2011


To answer John Vandenberg's question about the image filter survey "Was this
survey approved by the Research Committee?"

RCOM collectively was not consulted, though individual RCOM members may have
been.

WereSpielChequers
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> Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:23:14 +1000
> From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced
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> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > At Research committee list [1] there is ongoing discussion related to
> > John Vanderberg's question "Was this survey approved by the Research
> > Committee?" [2]. Research committee wasn't asked, of course (and
> > WereSpielChequers is working on statement). Because, simply,
> > politically motivated junk science requires implementation, not
> > questions about validity of premises.
> >
> > [1]
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/rcom-l/2011-September/000327.html
> > [2]
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/067889.html
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> Thank you for pointing this out Milos.  I wasnt aware that RCom's
> email list is public.  That is good.
>
> This survey may not be feeding into scientific research publications,
> however the principles of human research ethics should still apply to
> any survey of the public, especially when conducted by organisations
> funded by the public.  The survey instruments used should be valid,
> and the survey results should be discard if the survey population was
> not satisfactory.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
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