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qrendel | 9 years ago

> What we really need therefore (IMHO) is to teach ethics to people that work with data

Studies seem to indicate that studying and teaching ethics does not make you more inclined towards ethical behavior.[1] On top of that, from personal experience in business ethics courses, "ethical" has an extremely suspicious equivalence with "the thing which limits the company's exposure to liability."

[1] http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/BehEth-14...

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