I recently caused a bit of drama in my professional sphere by sharing statistics I had been keeping on how good my co-workers are at their jobs. The work we do is in public, and it's known and expected that I'll be watching them and sharing feedback with them on their performance, and/or talking about their performance with others. The only thing I did differently was write down my observations on a notepad, and once I had a few hundred data points, I shared anonymous statistics about the whole group's average performance. A few of them asked to not be included in this, and I refused.

This made several people upset, and they seemed to think I had violated some important norm around privacy or consent. I disagreed, since it was information I already would have had access to normally, it's not private information; it's expected that I'll talk about it with others, and it was all anonymous so it couldn't impact the reputation of any particular person.

Right now, I don't see a good reason why this was unethical. If when this market closes I have changed my mind and I believe that any part of what I did was unethical, I'll resolve to NO. Otherwise I'll resolve to YES.

I don't need to be convinced that everything was unethical; even if I'm only convinced that I should have let people opt-out, or that I shouldn't have shared it publicly, that'll be enough to resolve to NO.

I'm bidding this market up to near 100% as an incentive for people to provide me with arguments I find compelling.