Comment by refulgentis
2 years ago
I said the term of art thing to try to ward off a reply like this, I didn't want you to have to put in the effort.
2 years ago
I said the term of art thing to try to ward off a reply like this, I didn't want you to have to put in the effort.
Using weasel words doesn’t make your claim any more correct.
It's not "weasel words" -- there's a difference between an "experiment where city government changes traffic light patterns" and "experiment as in Institutional Review Board", and I suggest relaxing in general.
No, there’s not. Any of the examples I gave could be conducted by university researchers subject to the IRB, or by corporate/government researchers not subject to an IRB and informed consent requirements. When I worked in my university’s statistical consulting center in graduate school I could have consulted on the same experiment either subject to IRB or not depending on who the client was.
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