CGSC 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Online Chat
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Without clear guidelines on how to conduct research with human subjects, psychological and/or physical harm can occur. This is why any research involving human subjects must be approved by the university"s ethics board. 2) observation of people in public places. 3) research relies exclusively on secondary use of data or biological material. Each of those cases, however, is associated with certain conditions that must be met. Case of publicly available information, observations in public places, and research that relies on secondary use of data must be submitted to reb for approval if these conditions are not met. 1) information is publicly available (e. g. , in public archives, on the internet) Publicly accessible and free of reasonable expectations of privacy. As a researcher, you must understand the expectations of privacy prospective participants might have. There is a lot of information on the internet.