Work on Digital Experimentation
Written Work
Michelle N. Meyer & Christopher Chabris, Please, Corporations, Experiment On Us, NEW YORK TIMES, June 21, 2015
Michelle N. Meyer, Two Cheers for Corporate Experimentation: The A/B Illusion and the Virtues of Data-Driven Innovation, 13 COLO. TECH. LAW J. 273 (2015)
Michelle N. Meyer, John Lantos, Alex John London, Amy L. McGuire, Udo Schuklenk & Lance Stell, Misjudgements Will Drive Social Trials Underground, Nature, July 16, 2014 (list of 28 additional ethicist signatories)
Michelle N. Meyer, Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Controversial Emotion Experiment, Wired, June 30, 2014
Michelle N. Meyer, Facebook Announces New Research Policies, The Faculty Lounge, Oct. 2, 2014
Michelle N. Meyer, Facebook Rumored To Be Planning Foray Into the Online Health Space, Bill of Health, Oct. , 2014
Michelle N. Meyer, Two Cheers for Corporate Experimentation: The A/B Illusion and the Virtues of Data-Driven Innovation, 13 COLO. TECH. LAW J. 273 (2015)
Michelle N. Meyer, John Lantos, Alex John London, Amy L. McGuire, Udo Schuklenk & Lance Stell, Misjudgements Will Drive Social Trials Underground, Nature, July 16, 2014 (list of 28 additional ethicist signatories)
Michelle N. Meyer, Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Controversial Emotion Experiment, Wired, June 30, 2014
Michelle N. Meyer, Facebook Announces New Research Policies, The Faculty Lounge, Oct. 2, 2014
Michelle N. Meyer, Facebook Rumored To Be Planning Foray Into the Online Health Space, Bill of Health, Oct. , 2014
Invited Talks
- Invited panelist, Workshop on the Ethics of Online Experimentation, organized by Solon Barocas (Princeton) and Fernando Diaz (Microsoft), 9th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, San Francisco, CA (Feb. 22, 2016)
- Invited workshop participant, Beyond IRBs: Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research, hosted by Future of Privacy Forum with funding from NSF and Sloan Foundation, Washington, D.C. (Dec. 10, 2015)
- Invited panelist, Big Data Out-of-Context: Building a Privacy Review Board (organized by Joseph Jerome, Policy Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum), IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2015 Conference, Las Vegas, NV (Sept. 30, 2015)
- "Two Cheers for Corporate Experimentation: The A/B Illusion and the Virtues of Data-Driven Innovation," Legal Studies and Business Ethics Speaker Series (abstract), Wharton, Philadelphia, PA (April 13, 2015)
- "Two Cheers for (Some) Nonconsensual Corporate Experimentation,” Center for Ethics and Policy/Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (March 2, 2015)
- Conference on When Companies Study Their Customers: The Changing Face of Science, Research, and Ethics, sponsored by the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington, Boulder, CO (with Paul Ohm (Colorado Law), Ryan Calo (Washington Law), James Grimmelman (Maryland Law), Edward Felten (Princeton Center for Internet Tech.), Julie Brill (FTC), Tal Yarkoni (UT-Austin psychology), Kashmir Hill (Forbes), Janice Tsai (Microsoft), Rob Sherman (Facebook)) (Dec. 4, 2014) (slides)
- Experimentation and Ethical Practice, Conference on Digital Experimentation, MIT Sloan, Cambridge, MA (with Esther Dyson (EDventure), Leslie Meltzer Henry (Maryland Law), Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law), and Duncan Watts (Microsoft), moderated by Sinan Aral (MIT)) (Oct. 10, 2014)
- Session on “Manipulating Emotions on the Internet: The Cases of Facebook, OkCupid,” Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD (with Jerry Menikoff (HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)) and Rebecca Armstrong (Berkeley Research Subject Protection)) (Dec. 6, 2014)
Media Appearances & Mentions
See media page.
Other Relevant Writing
Michelle N. Meyer, Regulating the Production of Knowledge: Research Risk-Benefit Analysis and the Heterogeneity Problem, 65 ADMIN. L. REV. 237 (2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, Three Challenges for Risk-Based (Research) Regulation: Heterogeneity among Regulated Activities, Regulator Bias, and Stakeholder Heterogeneity, in The Future of Human Subjects Research Regulation (I. Glenn Cohen & Holly Fernandez Lynch, eds., MIT Press 2014)
Michelle N. Meyer & Christopher Chabris, Why Psychologists’ Food Fight Matters, Slate (July 31, 2014) (on importance of replication in science)
Michelle N. Meyer, Legal Experimentation: Legal and Ethical Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice in Law, Medicine and Policymaking (Jan. 2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Practice, Hastings Center Report (March-Apr. 2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, Exempt Research & Expedited IRB Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bill of Health (Oct. 22, 2012)
Michelle N. Meyer et. al, Online Symposium on the Law, Ethics & Science of Re-identification Demonstrations, Bill of Health (May 2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, Whose Business Is It If You Want To Induce a Bee To Sting Your Penis?, The Faculty Lounge (Apr. 3, 2014)
Michelle N. Meyer, Three Challenges for Risk-Based (Research) Regulation: Heterogeneity among Regulated Activities, Regulator Bias, and Stakeholder Heterogeneity, in The Future of Human Subjects Research Regulation (I. Glenn Cohen & Holly Fernandez Lynch, eds., MIT Press 2014)
Michelle N. Meyer & Christopher Chabris, Why Psychologists’ Food Fight Matters, Slate (July 31, 2014) (on importance of replication in science)
Michelle N. Meyer, Legal Experimentation: Legal and Ethical Challenges to Evidence-Based Practice in Law, Medicine and Policymaking (Jan. 2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, From Evidence-Based Medicine to Evidence-Based Practice, Hastings Center Report (March-Apr. 2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, Exempt Research & Expedited IRB Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bill of Health (Oct. 22, 2012)
Michelle N. Meyer et. al, Online Symposium on the Law, Ethics & Science of Re-identification Demonstrations, Bill of Health (May 2013)
Michelle N. Meyer, Whose Business Is It If You Want To Induce a Bee To Sting Your Penis?, The Faculty Lounge (Apr. 3, 2014)