• davel@lemmy.ml
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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.