Sociology 2206A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Laud Humphreys, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Cyril Burt

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2206A/B
• Professor: William Marshall

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Ethics include the concerns, dilemmas, and conflicts that arise over the proper way. Many ethical issues ask you to balance two values: pursuit of knowledge, the rights of research participants or others in society. Most unethical behaviour by researchers is due to a lack of awareness and to. Scientific misconduct pressures on researchers to take ethical shortcuts unethical conduct that significantly deviates from the accepted practice for conducting and reporting research within the scientific community. Scientific misconduct when someone engages in research fraud, plagiarism, or other. Research fraud a type of unethical behaviour in which a researcher fakes or invents data. Plagiarism a type of unethical behaviour in which one uses the writings or ideas of another without giving proper credit. It is (cid:498)stealing ideas(cid:499) that they did not really collect or fails to honestly and fully report how they conducted a study. Most popular case was sir cyril burt, father of british.