Informed Consent Can Be a Problem in Program Evaluation Research

question 34

Multiple Choice

Informed consent can be a problem in program evaluation research. Why?

• A)there tends to be a high rate of attrition in this research
• B)powerless clients might believe that a failure to give consent would have adverse consequences for them
• C)most subjects in these studies are under the age of 18
• D)subjects often cannot be reached before the study begins

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Definitions:

Efficient Markets

A concept in financial economics that states that asset prices fully reflect all available information at any point in time.

Expected Return

The probable return on an investment, considering all potential outcomes and their likelihoods.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, used in statistics to quantify the spread of data.

Investment Risk

The possibility of losing some or all of the invested capital, with the potential for variability in investment returns.