And yet, FAANG's somehow get way with employing credentialed psychologists and psychiatrists, to experiment on social media users, for maximizing their various engagement and click metrics.
For the scale and impact of non-IRB human psychology research, that one has to be at the very top.
I wouldn’t be surprised that, if Facebook was suddenly subject to extra scrutiny, they would just hire an independent IRB in the way that corporate clinical research does, e.g.:
I'm not sure how much this actually happens or if product teams and algorithms figure it out just by trying different things and chasing engagement metrics.
In what way does this article support the claim that psychologists “experiment on social media users for maximizing their various engagement and click metrics”?
For the scale and impact of non-IRB human psychology research, that one has to be at the very top.