Does ethics come inside science and method or does ethics reside outside?
Are humans a big bag of variables or do they deserve more respect than that?
Robert George: Clash of orthodoxies...battles made at the premises level, not the data level
Risks to ethics:
- Inconvenience
- Physical
- Psychological
- Social
- Economic
- Legal
Research should be thought of in terms of these risks and likelihood, severity, duration, reversibility, and detection.
Three major categories of research submitted to the IRB:
- Exempt: Normal practices, educational tests, observe public in public places (bathrooms not included), collection of existing data, taste tests
- Expedited: Minimal risk of participant identidy becoming public, medical devices, blood samples, collection of images, voice
- Full board: A probable risk of harm, involves deception
IRB is not necessary for pilot studies (un-publishable) and internal learning (learning about your teaching by asking questions of your students).
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