• davel@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    You are very confused. These kinds of studies have been common since at least the 1940s.

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        1 month ago

        If you really want to know, you’d need to get a copy of the paper.

        University research on human subjects follow a number of elaborate privacy rules, including those of the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. Researchers aren’t interested in our individual data; they’re interested in our data in aggregate for statistical analysis.

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          1 month ago

          Researchers aren’t interested in our individual data, but companies sure are interested in selling it…

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            1 month ago

            Yes, of course. But that’s upstream from this research. The data would have existed regardless.