Paul Brandon
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:47:01 -0700
At 1:42 PM -0400 9/25/01, Kenneth M. Steele wrote: >On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:00:18 -0500 Mike Scoles ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> While I'm on a rant about the publication manual, the >> subjects/participants distinction seems silly. > >What is the distinction according to the APA manual? > >As I read the relevant sections (pp. 18-19, 65, 70, 393-394)of >the new manual, the distinction is that humans are participants >and animals are subjects. Informed consent does not matter. > >Even the manual has problems with the distinction. Consider the >following quotation from the manual, "When humans participated >as the subjects of the study, ..." (p. 18). I suppose that that's better than saying that "When humans were subjected to participation in the study, ..." ;-) * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *