Re:23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study
by nkurz on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @01:39PM
(#12211608)
Could you (and others) be more explicit about which privacy concerns you have? Rather than treating them as an amorphous whole, it's probably more accurate to consider each concern individually. I've used 23andMe, and think it's an acceptable low risk compared to the potential benefit. But maybe I'm missing something that's obvious to others.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study
by nommm-nommm on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @01:59PM
(#12211769)
What's the potential benefit?
Re:23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study
by nkurz on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @03:06PM
(#12212401)
To me, the main benefit is potential knowledge about specific risks that I might be able to mitigate. But even if it just satisfies my own intellectual curiosity, I find it to be a benefit.
To the world, I think that having a large dataset helps to improve the quality of studies such as the one being discussed. There's great utility in having a "hold-out set" for verification.
The OP presumably perceives some similar benefits, hence the sense of being "conflicted". Whether the benefits are real is a valid, although separate question than whether the privacy concerns are justified.