> This particular study would very likely have been granted an apriori waiver of consent without much hassle at all. We had significant IRB work to do for a gr

> This particular study would very likely have been granted an apriori waiver of consent without much hassle at all. We had significant IRB work to do for a grant that involved usability testing of an application, to determine if it was more effective than existing tools. The IRB committee wanted to know what kinds of observations about software usability would be recorded and what kind of analysis we would be doing. They wanted assurance testers would be anonymous. They wanted assurance all testers would know about the evaluation, and how the analysis would be used. They wanted assurance that evaluation of the software's usability would not morph into an evaluation of the testers themselves.