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Abstract:
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In response to governmental mandates and for institutional protection, U.S. universities are demanding more training about ethics within existing graduate student curriculum. Most of this training is based on the teachings of western philosophers. However, many graduate statistics students are from eastern cultures. There is linguistic evidence that western ethics may be hard to translate into the philosophical concepts common to these non-domestic students. This talk describes how to blend a study of cross-cultural ethics with standard western ethics instruction that includes the ASA Guidelines within a graduate-level statistical consulting course. In particular, we present content that can help students overcome culture and language barriers to gain an understanding of ethical decision making compatible with both western and eastern philosophical models.
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