If anyone is interested in participating in a study on the influence of various types of media, please fill out this form (one of a number of different parts to the study): https://spreadsheets2.google.com/viewform?hl=en&hl=en&formkey=dDA0Yy1lbUhHUGV4WmhvR3VEeGpjN3c6MQ#gid=0

 

The form should take 3-5 minutes to complete. You will be asked to read 2 short articles and respond to a few questions.

 

If you have a chance, please also forward this along to anybody who would be interested or willing. The survey must be completed by Saturday, Feb. 19.

Thanks for your help!

Informed Consent * By participating in this experiment, you acknowledge that consent is voluntary, that you know may stop at any time, and that all results are confidential and anonymous.

• I have read the above and consent to participate in the experiment.

 

Just letting people know that this does NOT represent acceptable informed consent documentation. Acceptable documentation outlines the project's purpose, specific procedures taken to guard anonymity or confidentiality as well as data security, expected risks and benefits of a study, and perhaps most importantly, contact information for the principal investigators and the human subjects review board who approved the study. You don't call something science and fail to do this.

 

Informed consent is not an extra, or a joke, or a technicality. It is part of a modern system of research ethics which grew from the abuses of the Nazis, and of dangerously ambitious medical and social science researchers around the world.

 

Is this little survey likely to harm you? Of course not. That said, I would ask people to, as a matter of principle, not participate in studies which do not include an even halfway-decent informed consent.