Ethics

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• Topic 21
• Ethics

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Why ethics?

• Prison study
• Medical experiments without consent
• Research sloppiness
• Research incompetence

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Academic ethics

• Associations, e.g., AAPOR code of
• Academic association tenets

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Academic ethics (cont.)

• Legal requirements
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  -IRBs
• Institutional policies, e.g., WSU
• Subject safety and rights are maintained.
• Risks to subjects are minimized.
• Risks to subjects are justified in relation to
  anticipated benefits.
• The selection of subjects is equitable.
• Subjects will be informed of all procedures,
  costs, risks, and benefits of participating in a
  research study.

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Industry ethics

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Electronic issues

• Peoples behavior can
• Some people are
• Information protected in one part of the world
• Access to is easy.
• Researchers can
  in new ways. Participation in chats and other
  electronic environments can
  in ethnographic research.
• Others

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Questions

• Put this on a piece of paper
• Your name
• Your signature
• Day of the week, Todays date
• Topic 21
• 1. Describe a possible conflict of interest in
  your job?
• 2. How can that conflict of interest affect
  research?

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Please

• Wednesday
• Hints for final
• Class evaluations

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