While not necessarily squarely on point to all ELS Blog readers, a general discussion of social science ethics, re-ignited recently by an incident/study involving political scientists at Stanford and Dartmouth (for a description, click here) remains germane to many ELS scholars as well. In a recent post Andrew Gelman (Columbia--statistics) discusses suggestions by Macartan Humphreys (Columbia--Poli Sci) on how to think through the ethical dimensions incident to social science research in the field.
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