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).
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Psychology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
