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GEG306 - Chapter 3
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- 1Ethicsconforming to the standards of conduct of a given profession or group
- 21) Participation must be voluntaryEasier to do in a written survey than on the telephone where it can raise suspicions and can take lots of time
Can decrease the cooperation rate and lower the representativeness of the sample
Special caution with minors and those lacking some autonomy like prisoners and students - 32) No Harm to ParticipantsEven when they reveal personal and embarrassing information
Revealing potential old unethical behavior can lead to self-esteem issues
Has led to informed consent in which subjects sign a statement that they are aware of any risks and are participating voluntarily (A 2012 Facebook study violated this by sending, at random, positive and negative feedback on their Facebook page and then monitored their reactions) - 43) Anonymity and ConfidentialityAnonymity cannot be promised when you interview someone in person or even with RDD phone survey today
If you use something to assure anonymity you cannot keep track of who responded, allowing targeted follow up
Mail surveys can be kept anonymous.
If you are asking about sexual behavior or drug use, you would want anonymity - 5DeceptionDo we hide the fact that we are a researcher when our presence can impact whether people tell us the truth
Studies of white supremacists where the researcher pretends to share their views
You can tell them the purpose of the research sometimes when you get done (debriefing) - 6Analysis and ReportingShould report things that did not pan out
Negative results are results
Do not pretend that you were expecting to find a relationship between X and Y when you in fact had no hypothesis about it ahead of time - 7Institutional Review BoardRequired by Federal government but applied to most or all research
A committee at UM reviews research
Many surveys are exempt, critical for much research in medicine and psychology
Research done as a class example that will not be published - 8Professional Code of EthicsPolitics can impact what we study
Your own personal political views should not interfere with your research
Surveys done by candidates somehow often tell a different story because they use very biased questions
Some Marxists argue to connect social research with social action, that is research should be applied, but this has political overtones (participatory action research)
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