Lookit Terms of Use quiz

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This is an "open-book" quiz about the Lookit Terms of Use, which are found here: https://lookit.mit.edu/termsofuse/ The quiz should be submitted in conjunction with signing the Lookit Usage Agreement.

You are encouraged to complete the questions WHILE you read the terms in another browser window.

The quiz is a tool to make sure everyone actually understands the terms and let us know if we need to clarify anything. Please don't think you need to "study"! You will receive immediate feedback, and should simply review any questions you get wrong.

Email *

Your name *

Your PI (if not self) and institution *

How does IRB approval work for Lookit studies? *

1 point

All studies run on Lookit must be either approved by the MIT IRB or MIT must submit a cede agreement to the researcher’s institution

All studies run on Lookit must be approved by the researcher’s own IRB

Approval by Lookit staff constitutes an IRB review

Demographic data refers to the optional demographic survey Lookit participants complete, with information about location, educational attainment, family structure, race. *

1 point

Demographic survey data may be published if certain fields are omitted (e.g., children’s birthdates)

No information from the demographic survey may be used for research purposes or published.

Only aggregate data from the demographic survey (e.g., percentage of families with annual income under $30,000) may be published

Demographic survey data may be published if certain fields are omitted (e.g., children’s birthdates) and no identifiers make it possible to connect the demographic survey responses with any video data

A researcher is conducting a follow-up study to investigate correlations between an infancy measure and preschool behaviors. She would like to email previous participants to invite them to complete the follow-up session. A few families have opted out of receiving emails about follow-up sessions. *

1 point

The researcher is out of luck and unfortunately cannot reach these people.

Because of the disproportionate value of the follow-up session data, she may call this a “transactional” email to override their email preferences.

Assume that all of the following studies have received IRB approval. Which have elements that should be specifically noted ahead of the Lookit review process (because they would need an exception to typical restrictions)? *

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A study specifically for children diagnosed with autism.

A study that uses cute videos from families who opt in to “publicity” usage of their video data to advertise the study on Facebook

A behavioral economics study where children choose between a sure reward and a probabilistic reward, with varying parameters. A gift card is provided as compensation, based on the actual choices the child made.

A study about numerical cognition looking at correlations between siblings’ Weber fractions (where sibling relationships are determined by sharing the same family account on Lookit)

A study in collaboration with a local school district where families provide their child’s school ID number so researchers can test whether a new measure predicts later school grades

A study where children play a simple co-op game and choose how to allocate roles. The age-matched “teammate” is actually a simple AI agent, so no personal information is actually shared among participants.

A study about racial differences in expectations of ingroup/outgroup behavior. Families are told that the study is about how children learn to identify ingroup members.

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Lookit staff have access to data collected on the platform. *

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Lookit will not conduct any research on this data; it is used only to provide technical support to researchers and participants.

Lookit staff may use any data collected on the platform, but only for a limited set of purposes including developing data analysis tools for researchers, assessing data quality, evaluating effects of recruitment/advertising strategies, or recruiting participants.

Lookit staff may only use the account, child, and demographic data, not study-specific data, and only for the limited set of purposes described above.

Lookit staff may use any data collected on the platform for any purpose approved by MIT’s IRB.

A lab is planning to publish data collected on Lookit to support the reproducibility of their analyses. To protect participants’ privacy, they have removed dates of birth from a response spreadsheet and instead only provide the participant’s age in days at time of participation. *

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This is a sufficient plan.

This is ok, but only if they have also removed any information about the date of each session, including any timestamps included in the session data.

They can never publish exact age in days; the age must be rounded or jittered.

Which of the following pieces of information need to be removed from any raw data to be published? *

1 point

Children’s nicknames from the ‘child’ data

The unique IDs (like ‘8286242f-1b7a-4133-952d-d437cc971e26’ or '1256') assigned on Lookit to children, accounts, or demographic data snapshots

Children’s names when included in videos (e.g. a parent saying “That’s right, Karen!”)

Children’s dates of birth

Required

Is it ok for researchers to download data collected on Lookit and store it in an OSF repository? *

1 point

No, they must only view video and other data directly on Lookit and can make temporary local copies only

No, it would need to be stored on an encrypted local hard drive only

Yes, as long that’s ok with their own IRB

Occasionally a technical problem may cause a missing or unusable consent video. *

1 point

It is ok to publish the total number of sessions where parents did not consent, and/or other aggregate statistics like how many unique families with children in the age range started the study but did not consent.

It is ok to email the parent via the Lookit platform in this case to ask for permission to use the data.

If the parent and child went on to complete the study, it is ok to use the data from that session anyway.

Required

A researcher is planning a study for children ages 6-10. Which of the following are valid options for collecting consent to participate? *

1 point

Collect parental consent from all participants, and child assent from children ages 8 and up

Collect parental consent only from all participants

Collect both parental consent and child assent from all participants

Collect child assent only from all participants

Required

The Lookit “staging” server can be used for *

1 point

Trying out new features on Lookit

Designing and trying out studies

Collecting data from participants

Required

Which of the following are required of all Lookit studies? *

1 point

The parent must be able to reach a researcher by phone during the study session

The parent must remain in the room with the child

The parent must be able to end the study at any point

The parent must be able to withdraw consent to use video at the end of the study

The family must be compensated for their participation

Required

Which of the following are true for studies that are posted on (i.e. recruit via) Lookit, but which collect data outside the Lookit platform?

1 point

The researcher may collect email addresses from participants in order to contact them about other studies in the future

Lookit continues to collect webcam data from participants after they leave the Lookit domain

The rules for sharing data (e.g. video, ID codes, birthdates) are the same as for a study conducted on the Lookit platform

Families give informed consent/assent before they leave the Lookit domain

The following topics are not covered in the Terms of Use but are important to consider. It is okay not to have discussed all of these yet!

Feel free to contact Melissa (mekline@mit.edu) if you have questions.

We have a plan for the following, and I have discussed it with my students/PI (if applicable):

What to do in case we suspect child abuse or neglect based on data we receive.

What to do in case we receive a video that unintentionally contains sensitive information (e.g., nudity in background, phone call audible with address being read)

Where we will store data and how we will control access to it

What to do in case we accidentally compromise the security of our data

Sharing as much as possible of our stimuli, data, and analysis code when publishing results

Determining which of our studies/analyses are exploratory vs. confirmatory, and preregistering our studies if appropriate

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