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

[WereSpielChequers]

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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> Message: 5
> 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.
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> 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
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