I recently had a simple, innocuous memory experiment rejected because 'the students might feel bad if they couldn't remember all of the words'. It did get approved after I explained that if all of the students recalled all of the words, I would have nothing to compare between groups.
Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe [email protected] OSGrid - Evert Snicks On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O <[email protected]>wrote: > My favorite recent story about IOD (IRB Overreach Disorder): > > Last year, Emory's IRB informed one of our psychology graduate students > that she needed to change the font on her participant recruitment sheet > because it was too large, and hence too "coercive" to potential > participants. > > ..Scott > > > ________________________________________ > From: Mike Wiliams [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 12:53 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] AAUP recommends more researcher autonomy in IRB reform | > Inside Higher Ed > > This will have no impact since investigators are not represented in > AAHRPP or PRIMR. These organizations are sustained by more and more > regulations. They ignore the interests of investigators and essentially > treat investigators like they are all intent on harming subjects. It is > a real "them vs us" attitude and there is essentially no check on their > behavior. If there is one thing that the Republicans got right is that > when you create regulations, you great and industry and special interest > that feeds off supporting them. > > http://www.primr.org/ > > http://www.aahrpp.org/ > > Mike Williams > > On 3/7/13 12:00 AM, Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest > wrote: > > Subject: AAUP recommends more researcher autonomy in IRB reform | Inside > Higher Ed > > From: Christopher Green<[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:02:04 -0500 > > X-Message-Number: 1 > > > > A very interesting development in the history of the IRB. > > > http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/06/aaup-recommends-more-researcher-autonomy-irb-reform > > > > Chris > > --- > > Christopher D. Green > > Department of Psychology > > York University > > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > > Canada > > > > [email protected] > > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2f&n=T&l=tips&o=24167 > or send a blank email to > leave-24167-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > ________________________________ > > This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of > the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution > or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly > prohibited. > > If you have received this message in error, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the > original message (including attachments). > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13526.d532f8e870faf8a0d8f6433b7952f38d&n=T&l=tips&o=24172 > or send a blank email to > leave-24172-13526.d532f8e870faf8a0d8f6433b7952f...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=24176 or send a blank email to leave-24176-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
