And now a word on ethics

And now a word (or two or three) about ethics
Dorothy A. Winsor shows how miscommunication contributed to the challenger accident.
She says that various people in the organization knew about the possibility of a failure, and knew how to prevent it, yet the information did not get shared with the people who needed to know
It is important to make sure you are aware of the face that for successful communication your message has to not only be sent, but understood.
The importance of the mistakes made with the challenge disaster were often down played by involved parties when talking to superiors, and made to seem very important when people talked to their subordinates.
Many, such as those at Marshall’s were willing to admit that it was a serious problem as long as the blame was placed on MTI and not on them.
When the problem had to be attributed to Marshall however they were much more optimistic about the situation
They continued to play down the problems with the o rings to top officials and the launch of the shuttle went through even though there was evidence of problems in previous flights
The communication between departments was ultimately responsible for the problems that occurred and the placement of blame after the fact

Darrell Huff
How to lie with statistics
The use of statistics in writing can also be misleading.
If using a vague statistic it is possible to make it sound like there is more evidence for a certain point that is trying to be made than there actually is
How is this ethical?
It is easy to change the perception of graphs by how much of the graph that you actually show, if you only show a section with positive information, it is not a lie, it just is not the whole truth.
Averages can be used to skew figures and perceptions as well, one exceptionally high number makes an average seem higher than it really should be, but it is a legal average, just not an ethical one
Using pictures in graphs can mislead the date by using larger or smaller images than the data actually indicates.
Carolyn D. Rude
Legal and Ethical Issues in Editing
Copyrights belong to the author who created the work unless the author wrote the work to meet responsibilities of employment
Fair use allows some copying for educational purposes as long as it does not take so much information that that the author could lose book sales.
Editors can be named in product liability lawsuits, though the usual practice is to name the company