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I don’t think it’s accurate to say that any experiment where a human is simply involved qualifies as a human subject experiment. The IRB guidelines are pretty c
by dcow 5y ago
I don’t think it’s accurate to say that any experiment where a human is simply involved qualifies as a human subject experiment. The IRB guidelines are pretty clear about the distinction between simply gathering data from a human and gathering data about a human.
- SeanLuke 5y agoSure. But the study is quite specific: > The study aims to understand how websites would respond to real users, while accommodating websites that may have less capacity to respond. That is, they're not interested in what the website's policies are via questionnaires. They're prodding them under false pretenses to see what would happen. This is definitely human subjects research.