quantitative - chapter 3 Flashcards
The understanding of ethics is based on two basic concepts:
Means and ends. Means are the tools or behaviours that one uses to achieve a result, and ends are the desired result
Four quadrant plane can show
Good means, good end vs. bad means, bad end, ect.
Bad means and bad end make for
Unethical behaviour
Bad means and good end is also called
Maciavellian ethics
good means, bad end can be seen as
A politician manipulating facts to win his election - subjective ethic - in the perspective of someone evil, they are doing good
The Belmont report said that children
Should not be allowed to volunteer for the research process without legal consent, as with anyone with diminished autonomy
The second ethical principle of the Belmont report is
Beneficence - making sure that the harms and diminished and goods are increased
The third and final Belmont report ethical standard is
Justice - those who take risks in a study should receive the benefits of the study
What is the Common Rule?
Established set of guidelines for the welfare, rights, and protection of the research participant
Duplicate data publication means, and is treated by
When untenured profs publish the same data in more than one publication, and have double-dipped their chip in the salsa. You have not used to money that universities gave you to publish again, and you have taken away from researchers who may have wanted to publish
Post hoc hypothesis revision takes place when
A researcher, after discovering that his or her hypothesis is not going to work but has already done all the data, alters it to make it fit with the data, which is poor scientific method
Authorship credit is giving credit
Where credit is due, no matter what level of education they are at
Plagiarism is when an author
Does not properly give credit to the source
