Discuss the prompt with your group for five minutes
Choose someone to share your group's thoughts with the rest of the class
Prompt 1: Review the Readings
What stood out to you in the readings?
What did you particularly agree or disagree with?
What remaining questions do you have?
Have you ever participated in an experiment?
Prompt 2: Corporate Experiments
Facebook's mood experiments were (likely) legal, but were they ethical? Why or why not?
Government regulations apply to government-funded research, but don't always apply to research by conducted by companies. For example, companies regularly use A/B testing to evaluate product changes without ethical oversight.
Should laws regulate companies' experiments? What should the laws require?
Form Small Groups for Discussion Form a small group of 3-5 people For each prompt: Discuss the prompt with your group for five minutes Choose someone to share your group's thoughts with the rest of the class