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Genie Wiley: Case Study

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After watching the video on Genie Wiley you notice numerous ethical concerns that wasn’t a priority, for example privacy. Genie unfortunately had no say in whether or not she wanted her private information being told to the public, despite that she was unable to communicate. Without giving consent the scientist knew that they weren’t suppose to expose or use Genie as a guinea pig. Genie was unaware of what risk she may endanger through the scientist research. Confidentially was also problem for Genie because at one point she ended up moving from places to places due to her private information being told. Genie situation had many similarities with the Stanford Prison simulation and Milgram’s learning experiments. For one, participants were

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