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Comment on Facebook emotion manipulation study: an explanation

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Simple fix:

"We're conducting a scientific study on mood for the next three months. Would you mind participating? The study won't require you to do anything special or take any further action. Y/N?"

There we go kids, easy as pie; it's called consent to participate! Pretty easy to do without spilling the beans on the study.

This is a wider issue, but how do they prevent knowledge of the experiment adversely affecting the results?

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