You Have Proposed a Research Study to an IRB

question 4

Multiple Choice

You have proposed a research study to an IRB. It provides $100 to people who agree to complete a 30-minute, anonymous survey about their health history. What is potentially unethical here?

• A) The amount of compensation could be considered coercive.
• B) Personal health information is protected under federal law.
• C) Surveys, by definition, are never anonymous.

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Definitions:

Oceanic Ridge

Underwater mountain systems formed by plate tectonics, consisting of continuous volcanic mountain chains in the ocean.

Trench

A narrow, steep-sided, elongate depression of the deep seafloor, formed by bending down of a subducting oceanic plate at a convergent plate boundary; includes the deepest parts of the ocean.

Trench Rollback

Process by which a dense oceanic plate subducts into the asthenosphere, sinks, and tends to bend or roll away from the island arc.

Back-arc Rifting

A geological process occurring behind a volcanic arc, involving the stretching and cracking of the Earth's crust, leading to the formation of a new ocean basin.