OKCupid
When Cupid fires arrows double-blind: implicit informed agreement for online research?
A while ago Facebook got into the news for experimenting on its subscribers, leading to a fair bit of grumbling. Now the dating site OKCupid has proudly outed itself: We Experiment On Human Beings! Unethical or not?
Posted in Anders Sandberg's Posts, Ethics, Information Ethics, Web/Tech | Tagged experiments, facebook, informed consent, OKCupid
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