As part of the requirements for his Research Methods course

As part of the requirements for his Research Methods course , Dr. Weiner assigned each student toparticipate as a subject in 3 research studies offered by the Psychology Department. Each experiment was worth 10% of a student\'s course grade.

Scenario 9

1. State:

2. Explain

3. What should be done differently

STATE the single most obvious ethical problem or uncertainty in the study. (2) EXPLAIN specifically what about the study raises the ethical concern. And (3) STATE What should be done differently in the study to reduce or eliminate your concern.

This class is Research Methods

Solution

1. The most ethical problem in these kind of study is that whether the sample would be representative of the population.

2. Sampling error would be major ethical concern in the this study.

3. To eliminate this concern, the study should be carried out with great care so that the errors due to sampling would be minimum.