![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Frustration...
Oct. 27th, 2005 03:11 pmSomebody needs to write up Human Subjects forms that are appropriate for sociological research. I don't want to lock people in a room and tell them to push the button. I don't want to put one of their arms in a cast so I can study muscular degeneration (there actually was such a study at UMass a couple of years ago). I don't want to give them experimental drugs, take their blood, or mess with their heads. I simply want to ask them some questions about how they think about public and private.
But the forms that I have to fill out, even just for my departmental IRB (since my project is un-sponsored), make NO SENSE in the context of what I want to do. For example, my research is considered "non-beneficial." You'd think that non-beneficial would be, you know, a bad thing. But in my case, it just means that no individual person is going to get healthier as a result of participating in my study.
Rargh. Rargh, I say.
But the forms that I have to fill out, even just for my departmental IRB (since my project is un-sponsored), make NO SENSE in the context of what I want to do. For example, my research is considered "non-beneficial." You'd think that non-beneficial would be, you know, a bad thing. But in my case, it just means that no individual person is going to get healthier as a result of participating in my study.
Rargh. Rargh, I say.
