Imagine That You Are Designing a Study to Investigate a Sensitive

question 100

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are designing a study to investigate a sensitive phenomenon. Which of the following study designs would cause the most unnecessary harm?

• A) randomly assigning half of the participants to personally encounter the sensitive phenomenon
• B) studying the phenomenon in its natural habitat without interfering
• C) having participants read secondhand accounts of the phenomenon rather than experiencing it themselves
• D) having participants write about a past experience with the phenomenon rather than subjecting them re-experience it for the study