{"id":5982,"date":"2016-05-28T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T10:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2016-05-28T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T10:04:44","slug":"aarhus-universitys-reply-to-sjw-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2016\/05\/aarhus-universitys-reply-to-sjw-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarhus University&#8217;s reply to SJW letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1xjSi8gFT8B2jw-O8jhXykfSusggheBl-s3ud2YBca3E\/edit\">a complaint letter<\/a> to Aarhus University. I haven&#8217;t read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it: <a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reply-to-Oliver-Keyes-et-al.pdf\">Reply to Oliver Keyes et al<\/a> Basically, the letter affirms everything I&#8217;ve already said, namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>University was not involved, so:<\/li>\n<li>Their ethics rules do not apply.<\/li>\n<li>I can put the university on my name because I&#8217;m a student there, and this does not imply that I&#8217;m claiming to be working there. (Indeed, this is normal practice for Master&#8217;s students.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A bonus statement is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We are sure that EK has not learned his methods and ethical standards of research at our university, and he is clearly not representative of the about 38,000<br \/>\nstudents at AU.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last one is funny because it can be interpreted two ways. While they presumably mean it in a negative sense, I see it as positive: I managed teach myself statistics, programming, data science and psychology, and put those skills to use to gather this dataset. The university cannot claim much credit for these accomplishments. ;) Indeed, their only deed was having a linguistics program so easy that I could pass classes by spending perhaps a few days on each class at the end of each semester. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.su.dk\/english\/state-educational-grant-and-loan-scheme-su\/\">The Danish state then provides the funds for living<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those wondering who Oliver Keyes is, basically he is such as annoying SJW that even <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopediadramatica.se\/Oliver_Keyes\">Encyclopedia Dramatica has a page on him<\/a>. One can also find info from more serious sites <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/CLywO\">such as this one<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/wikimedia-foundation-s-oliver-keyes-stripped-of-administrator-status\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fallout of the OKCupid dataset release, some people wrote a complaint letter to Aarhus University. I haven&#8217;t read the letter, but Aarhus University has now replied to it: Reply to Oliver Keyes et al Basically, the letter affirms everything I&#8217;ve already said, namely: University was not involved, so: Their ethics rules do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2346,1866],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aarhus-university","tag-okcupid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5984,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}