You Want to Do an Experiment in Which Human Participants

question 86

Multiple Choice

You want to do an experiment in which human participants are asked to taste a particular substance so you can determine if the participants have very sensitive taste buds.Your plan is to not tell the participants in advance that the substance may taste really bad and then to describe how well participants can taste the substance by the faces they make.What can you expect your university's human subjects committee to say?

• A) You must find some other way to measure how well participants can taste the substance because you must tell them what may happen and get informed consent.
• B) They will probably suggest you do the experiment with animals.
• C) They will probably approve the experiment because there is no other way to measure how well participants can taste the substance.
• D) You can do the experiment,but you must debrief participants when it is done.

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