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I'll bite back: no informed consent. It's the most basic requirement from every research on human subjects.
by snotrockets 3y ago
I'll bite back: no informed consent. It's the most basic requirement from every research on human subjects.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoIf I speculate that Donald Trump is a narcissist based on publicly available information, would that be unethical? If not, how is it different?
- snotrockets 3y ago(I'm assuming) you are not a professional and this isn't a professional opinion. Me calling someone "dumb", maybe offensive, probably impolite, but as I'm not qualified to asses intelligence, carries little weight. A professional whose job is to asses mental capacity calling someone "dumb": just as offensive, but also unethical.
- xhevahir 3y agoSo, to take another example, if I were to say that Jonathan Swift appears to have suffered from depression, that would be a breach of ethics as you understand it?
- akiselev 3y agoYes though professionals agree to a medical code of ethics, whereas you probably didn’t. See discussions of the Goldwater rule [1] in psychiatry for more in depth explanations because it’s hard to explain without going into the very dark history of medical research and treatment. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule
- snotrockets 3y agoYou as a rando on the internet? Not, because your opinion doesn't carry much weight, if at all. You in a professional capacity? Of course.
- xhevahir 3y agoYou still haven't answered my question as to whether this medical code of conduct applies to a writer working in the fields of history or literary criticism (such as the scholar whose paper I mentioned above); nor the question of whether "scientific" is a quality one can reasonably expect of work in these disciplines.
- snotrockets 3y agoBaron-Cohen is a clinical psychologist.