Annette Taylor wrote: ".... even in a minimum risk study you are abusing your participants if you are asking them to give up their time and energy on a useless task." ----------
Does this mean an IRB should not approve a replication of Martin Orne's classic demonstration of experimental demand characteristics where he asked participants to add up columns of numbers and then tear up their work over and over for hours on end? He meant it to be as useless a task as possible, and he wanted to see how long they would do it just because he asked them to do it for an experiment. Was he abusing his participants? see http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume5/pre0050035a.html Bill Scott --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
