Hi I don't know about all of academic psychology being obsolete ... unless they find some way to monitor brain activity on-line or get other experimental measures. The IRB issue is interesting. They have a short statement that agreement to Facebook's terms constitutes informed consent. On the other hand, perhaps we can leverage this into more latitude with respect to ethics for our own studies, which appears to be more advanced in the USA than in Canada?
Take care Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Green [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: June-28-14 8:22 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology > experiment · Newswire · The A.V. Club > > Facebook just rendered either IRBs or all of academic psychology utterly > obsolete. > http://www.avclub.com/article/facebook-tinkered-users-feeds-massive- > psychology-e-206324 > > Chris > ....... > Christopher D Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > > [email protected] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&; > n=T&l=tips&o=37311 > or send a blank email to leave-37311- > [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37316 or send a blank email to leave-37316-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
