| Question 5
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Question:
When publishing your research, which of the following may present ethical
problems:
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| Your answer: (1)
Trivialisation or damage to your research and its participants if
published in popular press, due to the media's lack of understanding of
the issues. |
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Correct answer: (4)
All of the above. |
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Feedback: Better luck
next time. The correct answer is option 4. All of these are potential
hazards of publication. You cannot avoid all possible hazards, but by
considering as many outcomes as possible, you can at least take steps to
avoid the most important ones. You can avoid the problems of insufficient
anonymity by being creative in your use of pseudonyms - for example, you
may have to delete reference to someone's occupation if there is only one
person in this occupation in a particular community or organization, or
you may have to make an occupation more generic to avoid identifying
individuals inadvertently. You can avoid misrepresenting the views of
participants by checking with them prior to publication that this is what
they intended to say. You can avoid talking to the press, but this is more
difficult, especially if the topic is `newsworthy'. |