[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[John Vandenberg]

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

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.

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John Vandenberg