Ethical Guidelines for Research
Animal Research
- Clear purpose
- Treated in a humane way
- Acquire animals legally
- Least amount of suffering possible
Human Research
- No coercion, must be voluntary
- Informed consent
- Anonymity
- No significant risk
- Must debrief
Case Study - Detailed picture of one or few subjects
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Great story;
no cor-relational data - just descriptive.
Survey
Method - Most common study; measures correlation; cheap
and fast
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Needs
a good random sample; low response rate
Naturalistic
Observation - Watch subjects in their natural environment
I believe most animal research does not follow the guidelines put in your blog. Some acquire animals illegally and put the animals through a lot of suffering.
ReplyDeleteThe stranger assignment that we completed could be seen as naturalistic observation, could it not?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I believe animal research should not be allowed. They have no say in whether or not they want to be in the research at all.
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