#ethics
15 articles
- Sex Differences in PTSD: The Response Paper Where I Confused Prevalence with Vulnerability
Women have higher PTSD rates and lower trauma exposure. My draft read that as fragility. The meta-analysis says something more careful and more interesting.
- The Robotaxi Case: Competitive Pressure as a Root Cause
A sensor missed a pedestrian — that's the proximate cause. The fifteen-day concealment came from somewhere else, and incident reviews rarely name it.
- Nonresponse Bias Strategy: Planning for the People Who Won't Answer
Four strategies, submitted and defensible. Then I reread my own sentence about leveraging positional power to convert refusals — in a study about power.
- Digital Tools: Friendship Data, Filed Between a Pay Rise and Better Hiring
SAS models employee friendships, Alliant scores flight risk, Google asks five questions. One textbook heading files all three as the same kind of tool.
- Section 9: The Ethics Code I Break Every Time I Take a Free Quiz
Eleven rules govern how psychological tests may be used. I ran one quiz result I'd happily posted against all of them, and stopped defending myself.
- Mount Everest: A Case Study in Deference & the Decision Nobody Stopped
Both expedition leaders talked constantly about a turnaround time. Neither ever named one. A rule with no threshold in it cannot be broken, so nobody broke it.
- Shared Vulnerability: The Model, the Audit & the Studies They Both Point At
Carson cites Andreasen and Jamison as warrant. Schlesinger goes back to those originals. One number sits in both papers, meaning different things.
- Conscious Capitalism as an Acceptance Criterion: Reading the Deck Skeptically
Conscious capitalism sounds unobjectionable until you ask what would count as failing it. Rewriting it as acceptance criteria is how I read a values deck now.
- Grading the Grader: Reading the Duolingo English Test's Own Validity Evidence
Duolingo publishes strong validity research for its English test. Reading it closely, the problem isn't the numbers — it's the sentence they get turned into.
- The Merck Argentina Case: Localizing a Policy That Wasn't Built for the Place
A headquarters policy dropped into a country it was never designed for — and the Friday morning somebody asked for one small exception to it.
- Criterion A: The Trauma Definition I Defended & the Clause Written to Exclude It
I argued trauma should stay objectively defined. The revision I praised for being tighter was written specifically to exclude losses like mine.
- Precise About Forty, Silent About the Rest
A selection-law discussion post showed me how precisely the law can draw one boundary while staying silent about another.
- VulnerABLE Pan-European Survey - A Critique
A European survey set out to hear from isolated and vulnerable people. Its own method may have quietly changed what those people felt safe saying.
- Defining Fairness Through Accessibility: The Invisible Tax of Shifting Baselines
When a test measures barriers instead of ability, the score becomes evidence of the system around the person, not just the person.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.