Social Science Research
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52787/10-famous-psychological-experiments-could-never-happen-today
Discussion
Answer both questions
Read the piece on “10 famous psychological experiments…….” on this week’s reading list. Select 3 experiments from that list and list all violations of ethical principles that you think those experiments have committed.
Select one experiment either from the list of 10, or from your readings. Once again, list the three most important ethical breaches in that experiment. If you were given the chance to re-do that experiment how would you rectify those three breaches?
Ethical Research in Social Science
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In Elliott’s ‘Blue eyed versus Brown eyed students’ exercises, the researcher violated the ethical principle of honesty. In essence, the researcher deceived the students by misrepresenting data. At all times and in all scientific communications, a researcher should honestly report data, methods and procedures used in a research………………………….
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