At 1:42 PM -0400 9/25/01, Kenneth M. Steele wrote:
>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).
I suppose that that's better than saying that "When humans were subjected
to participation in the study, ..." ;-)
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