I find it interesting that despite the explicit deception to human participants found in the study that the IRB post-hoc issued an exemption stating that it was not research on human subjects.
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To follow up on this. I co-signed a letter with a number of other researchers expressing concern to @IEEESSP regarding the ethics research of this research.
A letter from the authors of the study can now be found here: https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc.pdf …https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1330671897822982144 …
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I also think that given the clarifications on *what* exactly occurred that the purported claims in the title and abstract are, to put it politely, overstated.
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Was that sardonic enough? I feel it could have been more sardonic... jfc
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Am I reading this right? Is like doing a study on how well people avoid contracting a communicable disease by going out into the world and trying to infect unwitting subjects? My guess is that a lot of CS people don’t even know that IRBs are a thing.
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Exactly. And I guarantee they know IRBs are a thing. It’s a basic part of the curriculum. They chose to deliberately mislead / circumvent the IRB process, and they absolutely deserve what they’re getting here.
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IEEE is the largest opaque organization and publisher, Factors like Research quality and ethics are just some words on papers and pages for IEEE.
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Among other things, in my view the activities described in the paper breach the IEEE code of ethics #9: "to avoid injuring others, their property, reputation, or employment by false or malicious actions, rumors or any other verbal or physical abuses;"https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html …
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