Re:[tips] Blinded Studies

Hello All. This is starting to look like a response to journal reviewers. Rather than make a long list of point-by-point responses, I would like to just state some points that might generate a paradigm shift in how we think of outcome research. The major point I want to make is one that ev

Re:[tips] Ethics Question

Guidance is readily available directly from APA's site: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx Compensation for research participation is discussed in section 8.06, though what qualifies as "excessive" is certainly open to interpretation. Regards, Justin Fidler Sona Systems, Ltd. --- You

Re: [tips] Ethics Question

That's how I read it, and how I taught it this past Monday. Paul On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Rick Froman wrote: > As far as I know, there is no APA ethics requirement that participants > receive an incentive for participating. To the extent it is discussed, it is > the opposite concern: that

[tips] Navy seals and gender

It appears that all of the Navy seals are men.Am I correct? Are there ex-navy seals in Tipsville? Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12699 or send a

Re: [tips] Ethics Question

I was as puzzled by this as Annette & Rick. If anything, offering incentives can be regarded as problematic because they can be coercive. BTW, I know of one case where a researcher was told *not* to give an incentive (in this case a very cheap item - a disposable razor - given to the all-male par

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

Dear Joe, You are welcome. Stuart ___ "Floreat Labore" [cid:image001.jpg@01CC73B7.53253AE0] "Recti cultus pectora roborant" Stuart J. McKelvie,

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

Thanks Stuart, Rick and Annette! I stand corrected in my understanding of the ethical requirements. My students will be pleased their project is feasible. Joe Joseph J. Horton, Ph. D. Box 3077 Grove City College Grove City, PA 16127 724-458-2004 jjhor...@gcc.edu In God

[tips] Apple juice research design

Dr.OZ seems to be presenting a more definitive and conclusive research design to warn the public of the dangerous level of arsenic in apple juice.It is a 2x2 design.The ABC dude Richard Besser seems to be defending the status quo.Hope Ed is not letting his grand kids drink apple juice. I can see

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

Dear Tipsters, Annette wrote: Where does it say that in the APA guidelines that in a standard psychological study we MUST give incentives? .. What ever happened to "volunteers" in the truest sense of the word? It may explain some of the "entitlement" people in general feel these days if "eth

Re: [tips] Ethics Question

As far as I know, there is no APA ethics requirement that participants receive an incentive for participating. To the extent it is discussed, it is the opposite concern: that incentives could become coercive. Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM,

RE:[tips] Ethics Question

Did I read this right? Did this send me right up to the soapbox? Where does it say that in the APA guidelines that in a standard psychological study we MUST give incentives? I thought we only had to disclose whether or not there were any, and that participants could quit at any time they feel d

[tips] Ethics Question

Suppose some students wanted to study varsity athletes at a DIII school. As I understand things APA ethics requires that study participants receive some incentive for participating. However the NCAA might find that offering incentives to recruit only athletes for a study would be a violation; or

RE: [tips] Blinded or Blind Studies

Jim et al. - Re: Jim Clark's question # 4 below, there is a modest literature comparing "antidepressants" (I place the word in quotations, as there is now increasing consensus that these are not medications for depression per se) with "active placebos," which create many/most of the same side ef