Ethical Awareness in the Age of Analytics: Views from the United States and the Philippines
Johnny Snyder
Colorado Mesa University
Tiffany Adelaine Tan
University of the Philippines – Cebu
Abstract
Without a set of guidelines in how one should behave in certain circumstances, people would base their actions on what they feel and think. This paper aims to demonstrate the similarity and differences in how two cultures look at the same ethical scenarios. Two scenarios concerning data errors, along with guide questions, were given to two sections of students studying introduction to data analytics in different countries, the United States of America (US) and the Philippines. Thirty-five students from the US joined the study, while 38 students from the Philippines participated. The eight principles from the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative were used to gauge the ethicality of each scenario. As businesses move more toward data-driven decision making in the 21st century, there is an urgent need to incorporate ethical principles in data analytics courses to establish a common ethical practice in data analytics across differing cultures.
Keywords: Analytics, Ethics awareness, Classroom Ethics, Data Fraud
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