9/28/2022
Chapter 8 - Data Ethics
- Professional Ethics
- Hippocratic Oath for physicians
- How to Lie with Statistics, written in the 1950s
- Current examples
- Stand your ground
- Global temperature
- Covid-19 reporting
- Other case reports on professional ethics - see Section 8.4
- CEO who wanted to play GOD
- Employment discrimination
- Predicting sexual orientation
- Race prediction
- Data scraping
- Reproducible speadsheet analysis
- Drug dangers for FDA approved medications
- Legal notifications and experts
- Some principles to guide ethical action
- Data Science Oath - has not achieved widespread adoption or formal acceptance
- Data Values and Principles manifesto
- Algorithmic bias
- Data and disclosure
- HIPPA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Safe data storage
- Data scraping and terms of use
- Reproducability
- Ethics, collectively
- Publication bias - the file drawer problem and searching for significance
- Disclose the full extent of testing
- ASA Committee on Professional Ethics
- ACM code of ethics
Activity 10
- Form groups of 2 or 3 and discuss possible concerns or hestitations that data scientists may have with the Data Science Oath on p. 167 and the 12 principles from the Data Values and Principles manifesto on pages 167 and 168.
We will have a problem session on Friday. Please send me an email message that includes a short description of your topic for your first project, whether you will be working alone or with a partner, and the preferred date for your presentation (before October 12).