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 ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 00:23:14 +1000 > From: John Vandenberg <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <CAO9U_Z5=GbrO6j=0vmmuhpw2p5pe_z_gptqyysh6lzn2red...@mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > John Vandenberg > > > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
