On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Kenneth Steele went:
The rule I was taught was to answer the question of whether the
participant left the session with an understanding that could
produce harm to the participant. Extreme example: I tell the
participant that he had ingested kool-aid when he had received
kool
The rule I was taught was to answer the question of whether the participant
left the session with an understanding that could produce harm to the
participant. Extreme example: I tell the participant that he had ingested
kool-aid when he had received kool-aid plus alcohol (or the reverse condit
I was about to convey something similar before I saw Karl's post. Admittedly,
this is a mild form of deception (would anyone really object to participating
in the study because they were told that the study was of memory rather than of
attention or vice versa?). The fact is that very often resea
One of my grad students deceived subjects by telling them that the
research was designed to investigate the physiology of taking online quizzes.
In fact, the research involved relating physiology to cheating on such quizzes.
Because of such deception, our IRB informed us that not onl
Good afternoon, TIPSters. I have a question regarding IRBs and informed
consent. My students submitted their proposal and created a "working title"
for their study that doesn't reveal their real intent (they are looking at
memory rather than attention). To disclose the true nature of the study to
p
