Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 56-63

  Daries, Jon P ^a   Reich, Justin ^b   Waldo, Jim ^b   Young, Elise M ^b   Whittinghill, Jonathan ^b   Ho, Andrew Dean ^b   Seaton, Daniel Thomas ^a   Chuang, Isaac ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DATA RANGES; HUMAN SUBJECTS; IP ADDRESSS; LEVEL OF EDUCATIONS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; QUASI IDENTIFIERS; SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH;

STUDENTS; BIG DATA;

EID: 84906666712     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2643132     Document Type: Article

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