Tipsters:
since I am swamped these days I am only briefly skimming this exchange--
but the gist, as I read it seems to be that in some cases researchers
have asked for parental consent and considered a non-response as
consent and a response to only occur if parents do NOT want their
child to participate.
The ensuing discussion has been whether or not this is proper as
there seem to have been a number of arguments over whether there might
be other reasons for nonresponse.
OK--but here is my 2nd issue:
Wouldn't you have to request this consent for each individual study
separately? As I have been reading the posts it sounds like a
part of the problem, for me, is that it sounds like parents are
being asked for blanket consent for an entire semester--not necessary for
a particular study.
Am I reading this wrong, and if I'm reading it right, isn't this
at least as big an ethical problem?
annette
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
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