Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, & Ethical Data Collection: Crash Course Statistics #12
Today we're going to talk about ethical data collection. From the Tuskegee syphilis experiments and Henrietta Lacks' HeLa cells to the horrifying experiments performed at Nazi concentration...
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Hi, I’m Adriene Hill, and Welcome back to Crash Course, Statistics. Today we’re going to step back from sampling and regressions to talk about the impact of all that statistical gathering. We’ve seen that the interpretation of this information can have real lasting effects on our society, but its collection can also have lasting effects on the subjects. The process of gathering and applying statistics can affect real people’s lives which means there’s an responsibility to gather and use this data ethically. Today we’ll discuss 5 stories. Four of them are real and all of them can help us learn where collecting data can go wrong, and how we can help prevent these things from happening again. INTRO Our first story begins in 1822 when a young fur-t...
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Hi, I’m Adriene Hill, and Welcome back to Crash Course, Statistics. Today we’re going to step back from sampling and regressions to talk about the impact of all that statistical gathering. We’ve seen that the interpretation of this information can have real lasting effects on our society, but its collection can also have lasting effects on the subjects. The process of gathering and applying statistics can affect real people’s lives which means there’s an responsibility to gather and use this data ethically. Today we’ll discuss 5 stories. Four of them are real and all of them can help us learn where collecting data can go wrong, and how we can help prevent these things from happening again. INTRO Our first story begins in 1822 when a young fur-t...
