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Privacy, Ethics, and Data Access: A Case Study of the Fragile Families Challenge.
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- Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Theory In, Theory Out: The Uses of Social Theory in Machine Learning for Social Science.Frontiers in big data · 2020Article
- Introduction to the Special Collection on the Fragile Families Challenge.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
- Successes and Struggles with Computational Reproducibility: Lessons from the Fragile Families Challenge.Socius : sociological research for a dynamic worldArticle
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Abstract
Stewards of social data face a fundamental tension. On one hand, they want to make their data accessible to as many researchers as possible to facilitate new discoveries. At the same time, they want to restrict access to their data as much as possible to protect the people represented in the data. In this article, we provide a case study addressing this common tension in an uncommon setting: the Fragile Families Challenge, a scientific mass collaboration designed to yield insights that could improve the lives of disadvantaged children in the United States. We describe our process of threat modeling, threat mitigation, and third-party guidance. We also describe the ethical principles that formed the basis of our process. We are open about our process and the trade-offs we made in the hope that others can improve on what we have done.
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