In Kazdin's "Research design in clinical psychology" (3rd ed.), the rationale for retaining "subjects" is provided in a footnote to the first chapter. Among the points made:
1) "Subjects" is used extensively in discussions of design, (subject selection, within-subject, single-subject).
2) "Participants" is vague. It could refer to experimenters, investigators, subjects, and consumers.
This is the point.
The APA (Association for Political Appropriateness?) is trying to blur the distinction between subjects and experimenters on the grounds that the distinction denigrates subjects.
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