Ethics/ Research Results

Question 1

Ethics in Research

Answer 1

1. Informed consent
2. Freedon to choose
3. No coercion
4. Equal opportunity
5. Don’t lie/ No deception
6. Explain Method of study
7. Protect Pwerless and Vulnerable
8. Right to withdraw
9. Right to withhold responses
10. Do no needless harm
11. Do not contradict wishes or interests
12. Respect Privacy
13. Don’t reveal secrets (confidentiality)

Question 2

Plotting Data

Answer 2

• Scatterplots
• Bar charts
• Line charts
• Pie charts

Question 3

Intstitutional Review Board (IRB)

Answer 3

• Various members
• Risk-benefit ratio
• Value

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

Question 4

Error Bars

Answer 4

Show variability

Question 5

Scatterplot Correlations

Answer 5

• Postitive
• Negative
• Absent

Question 6

Descriptive Statistics

Answer 6

• Central Tendency (Average)
  
  • Mean
  • Median
  • Mode
  • all same in normal distribution

Question 7

Variability

Answer 7

range

standard deviation

Question 8

Research Measures

Answer 8

• Valitity
  
  • Internal- the study
  • External- the world
• Reliability
  
  • Stability

Question 10

Inferential Statistics

Answer 10

• Statisticallly Significant
  
  • Type I error- false positive; p< .05
  • Type II error- false negative; power
• t-tests
• F-tests