Ethical considerations

[kaedonkers]

What are the ethical concerns/considerations for this project?

• How is this project funded? Who is funding it?
• Which demographics do the data cover?
  • e.g. homeless people
  • inclusion requirements
  • data collection process
  • geographical representativeness
• Are the data balanced? What does that mean?
• Which demographics/who will be covered by the outcome of the project?

[Ranapop]

Data collection

People might not be well represented: 1) People need to have an address (no homeless people surveyed) 2) People need to have a phone (they were called) 3) People need to speak the language the survey was conducted in 4) People cannot live in an institution (therefore explicitly excluded from the survey)

[kaedonkers]

Data

• Are the data gender balanced? -> No weighted
• How were people identified to be approached by the study?
• Does response rate mean that the data is unrepresentative?

[ddundo]

Gender

[kaedonkers]

People inclusion criteria:

• +18 years of age
• Not living in institution
  • Specifically nursing homes, prisons, hospitals
• Have lived at address for +6 months

[Ranapop]

Research claims

You have to be careful to separate causation from correlation.