Dennis Roberts wrote:
> > If a marketing researcher wants to do the same, they don't have to
> >prove anything: they just pick up the phone & start dialling.
>
> sorry ... i don't agree ... our IRB would not make that assumption if you
> are talking about a marketing professor who is doing polling ... because
> they still are using human Ss ... even if the folks they are interviewing
> are located 100 miles away ... in a different town and have nothing to do
> with students on campus
OK, but what if your alumni office does it to find out whether
there
would be alumni support for an underwater hockey team at Penn State?
Or, indeed, if the professor you've just mentioned were to be asked by
the
alumni office to coordinate that study? Does the IRB put them through
the
hoops?
-Robert
.
.
=================================================================
Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the
problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at:
. http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ .
=================================================================
