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Backend (Node.js, redis), frontend (js), and analysis (R) for web-based visualization studies.
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Make experimentr users aware of privacy issues w/ Mechanical Turk ids #66

Open codementum opened 8 years ago

codementum commented 8 years ago

(Inspired by sharoz)

connorgr commented 8 years ago

Might be worth defaulting Experimentr to use an anonymized hash (e.g., SHA1) for data analysis and export. Then include a warning whenever the Turker IDs are used instead of hash.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 4:45 PM Lane Harrison notifications@github.com wrote:

  • Bring in the paper that talks about identifying MTurk users via their IDs
  • Provide guidelines for releasing experiment data (using the experiment id we already automatically generate)

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codementum commented 8 years ago

Right-- Turk IDs are mainly (only?) used to prevent multiple attempts.

Exporting still needs some work, but when we revise it some sort of privacy warning / restriction would be a good feature.