Oops. Didn't catch the locality. Doesn't everyone in cyberspace live in the same place? ;-) Re: the US guidelines, I think most of them are quite clear, with the very unfortunate exception of the definition of what constitutes "research." But I hear the OHRP is working on that. On Mar 8, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Mark D. Johns wrote:
Christian Nelson wrote:
That is stupid, and shows complete ignorance of the federal governments guidelines. There are a lot of IRBs out there who are simply making up their own rules, which is foolish.
What you say is true, but Marj isn't in the U.S., so her "federal government" may have different guidelines. In fact, the U.S. guidelines for IRBs are so vague that they clearly invite absurdity. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http:// listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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