The row over the ethical implications of the Facebook "emotion contagion" study still rumbles on, despite a public apology for the "poorly communicated" study by the social network's chief operating officer and number two, Sheryl Sandberg.
While Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg today apologized for its controversial emotion manipulation experiment being "poorly communicated", another executive said this kind of research makes the product better, and "it's concerning when we see legislation that could possibly stifle that sort of creativity and that innovation".
Smith said nagging is often caused by a combination of unspoken or improperly communicated expectations and crappy follow-through on promises.
Company executive Sheryl Sandberg has since apologized for the study, calling it "poorly communicated". Andrew Ledvina, a former data scientist at Facebook from early 2012 to the summer of 2013, told the Wall Street Journal that Facebook did not have an internal review board monitoring research studies conducted by the data science team.
But they felt forced to use search engine optimization (SEO), where dense terminology and poorly-communicated concepts left execs feeling they were entering an arcane world of dark arts they hated the typical push/pull relationship with SEO practitioners.
Take this scenario: a team has started the season poorly, below expectations.
Amtrak's well-traveled and tech-addicted customers, unfortunately, don't seem to care whether this is a case of poorly managed expectations.
Why? Usually, it's because we have poorly set expectations.
Efforts by the health department, Home Office and Treasury to manage the situation were "poorly planned, badly communicated and inadequately coordinated".
In contrast, stocks tended to have just the opposite relationship to inflation, performing poorly when inflation expectations were rising.
Overall, patients perceived HealthSpace as neither useful nor easy to use and its functionality aligned poorly with their expectations and self management practices.
