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by yummyfajitas
4042 days ago
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You don't know the long term effects of random social media posts either. Before doing some sort of a controlled study you can't know. Recently I went to a conference and acted like a sales guy. I gave different (truthful) pitches to different people and observed how enthusiastic they seemed about the product afterwards. Was that also unethical? Would it become unethical if I did a hypothesis test afterwards, rather than merely going with my gut? |
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Right, hence the whole rest of my message concerning intent, consent, and their importance with regards to morality and ethics.
> Was that also unethical?
Maybe? I wasn't there, I can't tell you. There are plenty of ways to act VERY unethically when it comes to sales and advertising, even while being truthful (e.g. you could omit some very important information). Deceptive advertising is a whole class of illegal actions in many developed nations, and not all of those actions involve the strictest definition of lying.
Not sure what hypothesis testing has to do with anything, experimentation certainly doesn't need to go hand-in-hand with statistical analysis.
I almost added a bit about taking the whole thing to its logical conclusion that the entire field of advertising and sales is arguably unethical. I haven't really thought that entirely through so I omitted it, but it's food for thought nonetheless.