Practice with Experimental Design and Ethics
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| Course: | GKT101: General Knowledge for Teachers – Math |
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| Date: | Saturday, 19 April 2025, 7:47 AM |
Description
Complete these exercises and check your answers.
Practice
41. Discuss potential violations of the rule requiring informed consent.
- Inmates in a correctional facility are offered good behavior credit in return for participation in a study.
- A research study is designed to investigate a new children's allergy medication.
- Participants in a study are told that the new medication being tested is highly promising, but they are not told that only a small portion of participants will receive the new medication. Others will receive placebo treatments and traditional treatments.
Source: Rice University, https://openstax.org/books/introductory-statistics/pages/1-practice
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Answer
41.
- Inmates may not feel comfortable refusing participation, or may feel obligated to take advantage of the promised benefits. They may not feel truly free to refuse participation.
- Parents can provide consent on behalf of their children, but children are not competent to provide consent for themselves.
- All risks and benefits must be clearly outlined. Study participants must be informed of relevant aspects of the study in order to give appropriate consent.