Project 6. Data ethics. Locate a news discussion of an ethical issue that concerns statistical studies. Write your own brief summary of the debate and any conclusions you feel you can reach.

Here is an example of one way to approach this project. Testing new drugs on human subjects continues to be an ongoing concern in medical studies. How does one balance the need for knowledge with protecting subjects from possible harm? Searching the archives at the website of the New York Times (www.nytimes.com) for “experiments and ethics’’ (to use the New York Times search engine, you should enter “+experiments +ethics’’), one finds many articles, including a promising one in the issue of May 7, 2015. To read the article, you may be able to link to it directly online, but if not, you will have to either pay a fee or go to the library. You could also try searching the Web with Google. We entered “drugs and human guinea pigs’’ and found some possible leads.