Mike Scoles
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:54:22 -0700
While I'm on a rant about the publication manual, the subjects/participants distinction seems silly. For an excellent discussion of this, see the footnote at the end of Chapter 1 in Kazdin's (1998) Research Design in Clinical Psychology. "[In Kazdin's text] the term subject(s) is retained but used interchangeably with other terms (participant, client, patients). The term is also important because it has been adopted in key topics related to methodology (e.g., subject selection, subject artifacts). Also, participants in research include investigators (who design the study), experimenters (who administer the conditions), and, in an important sense, consumers of research (other professionals, the public at large). The distinctions are leaborated later; nevertheless, it is important to be clear at all times about who provides the data (i.e., subjects)." -- ********* http://www.coe.uca.edu/psych/scoles/index.html ******** * Mike Scoles * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Department of Psychology * voice: (501) 450-5418 * * University of Central Arkansas * fax: (501) 450-5424 * * Conway, AR 72035-0001 * * *****************************************************************