What Is the General Ethical Principle Regarding Deception in Social

question 21

Multiple Choice

What is the general ethical principle regarding deception in social research?

• A) Deception can be ethically used if the researcher can guarantee that subjects will never have knowledge that they had been part of a study.
• B) Deception can be ethically used only if it is essential to the research, where other methods of data collection would yield tainted unusable data.
• C) Deception is completely unacceptable and is considered taboo amongst social scientists.
• D) Deception is fully acceptable and is not considered unethical.

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