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The headbands were handled via a partnership with Zhejiang Brainco Technology Co Ltd. so donation is far from the right word to use. One of their partner's cofounders is also a Harvard PhD holder so it's hardly a case of the Chinese company just being there to take up space as is often claimed around here. This is a donation in the same way that lots of large American companies are Irish. And the objections from parents as well as the government's cited reason for the shutdown were on data privacy grounds according to multiple articles which is a valid criticism but unrelated to the actual usefulness of the devices. So I'm not sure what you're actually driving at here.

Everyone's focusing on the pressure this adds but that seems largely due to cultural factors. Of course students feel more pressured if the data is primarily used to criticize them. But what about evaluating the teachers ability to keep students focused on a task? Or evaluating if a new medication is making a difference for a student with ADHD? As a side note, it seems like lazy journalism to not seek out more commentary from people involved in the project. Their expert was a random Neuroscientist from San Fransisco for gods sake, they could at least have explained why they found his particular criticism worthwhile but they never even establish if he's familiar with the specific work being done in China. If the research is being done in China and the tech is bespoke to the research program in China it's weird to prioritize input from American researchers without some degree of explanation is all I'm saying.