A Poverty Organization in Los Angeles Is Testing the Intervention

question 39

Multiple Choice

A poverty organization in Los Angeles is testing the intervention of cash handouts to women on welfare.Though they may produce robust sociological data,randomized field experiments such as this one carry serious ethical concerns.What is one likely ethical concern of such a project?

• A)The intervention may not work.
• B)If cash handouts for one group of women will increase,cash handouts for another group will decrease from their previous levels.
• C)The study participants may spend their money too quickly.
• D)Researchers may be arbitrarily denying some people of a known benefit.

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