It appears that Dave Crocker via mailop <d...@dcrocker.net> said: >> * On the big issue, the ENROLLMENT OF HUMAN SUBJECTS WITHOUT CONSENT >> into the study, I have been told that "[t]he IRB determined that our >> study does not constitute human subjects research." > >I haven't gone through an IRB process. So I've no idea what the >dynamics, practical criteria, or typical outcomes are from them.
Apparently this is pretty common. IRBs were invented to in response to things like the Milgram experiments where the subjects were tricked into thinking that they were administering dangerous electric shocks to other people. They don't seem very good at recognizing that at the other end of each e-mail there is a person, and that person will be affected. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
