The article on the Bailey affair is fascinating. Thanks for bringing my attention to it.
It's a sensitive research ethics issue - how much say should the participant have in editing the results if they dislike the conclusions offered buy the researcher? This is a sensitive issue, and we suggest researchers negotiate it very carefully.
Another interesting effect was that Dreger, who cam out on Bailey's side, also classifed his work as "not research", since it was more qualitative than quantitative. That's a dangerous game. By omitting that work from the rigourous ethical standards by defnining it as "not research", the kind of work that can ONLY be undertaken by qualitative inquiry gets marginalized. Ultimately if it isn't research, it also isn't worthy of funding, which is a huge blow to disciplines and areas of inquiry which depend on qualitative inquiry. Defining something as "not research" to evade ethics regulations can easily backfire later when someone wishes to question the academic legitimacy of the work....
Sorry for going on... that case raises a lot of issues that would be of interest to my colleagues. Thanks for raising it!
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It's a sensitive research ethics issue - how much say should the participant have in editing the results if they dislike the conclusions offered buy the researcher? This is a sensitive issue, and we suggest researchers negotiate it very carefully.
Another interesting effect was that Dreger, who cam out on Bailey's side, also classifed his work as "not research", since it was more qualitative than quantitative. That's a dangerous game. By omitting that work from the rigourous ethical standards by defnining it as "not research", the kind of work that can ONLY be undertaken by qualitative inquiry gets marginalized. Ultimately if it isn't research, it also isn't worthy of funding, which is a huge blow to disciplines and areas of inquiry which depend on qualitative inquiry. Defining something as "not research" to evade ethics regulations can easily backfire later when someone wishes to question the academic legitimacy of the work....
Sorry for going on... that case raises a lot of issues that would be of interest to my colleagues. Thanks for raising it!