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0. Ethics. Harm. Ensure privacy/confidentiality/anonymity/ security of information received. Use fictitious names when reporting results. Seek permission to quote when identification unavoidable (eg, Mayor, Managing Director). . Free choice . Subjects must not be coerced into participating
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Harm • Ensure privacy/confidentiality/anonymity/ security of information received. • Use fictitious names when reporting results. • Seek permission to quote when identification unavoidable (eg, Mayor, Managing Director).
Free choice • Subjects must not be coerced into participating • … even in ‘captive group’ situations • Free choice not possible in: • Some observational research • Some type of participant observation
General research ethics • Researchers should be competent • Research should be informed by a literature review • Plagiarism is unethical • All contributors should be acknowledged • Falsification of results is unethical
Ethics Review Form • Before you can collect your data, your research must first be reviewed by an ethics review committee in your home department. • Let us look at the form for the Schwartz School