Document Summary
Discussions of ethics tend to sound worthy, sometimes border on the philosophical, and occasionally stray right off the point. Ethics relate to moral choices affecting decisions and standards and behaviour. So it is quite hard to lay down a set of clear rules, which cover all possible moral choices. Sometimes it can be quite a shock, when you have been used to getting pretty clear ideas about how to do something, to find you have to make your own decisions about how things will be done. Ethical choices we have never imagined can just creep up and hit us. An obvious example would be when, as a very honest student, we start to collect some data together and realize that one source of data is completely out of step with the rest. As a professional researcher, that is an interesting challenge, which will create its own new pattern of research and investigation.
