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Rob Wiblin on self-improvement and research ethics

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Positive for Recruiting People for Studies Online

There's all these historical cases where researchers did just horrific things usually quite some some time ago now and that created the motivation to create ethical review boards. We build a tool called positively for helping you quickly recruit people for studies online. Every study participant at the end of participation they're asked about a series of questions about like do you think this was unethical would you know was it a frustrating experiment for you? They can tick any of them that they agree with and then if they say that any other apply they're given the option to pause the study. If more than a few of them say yes the state should be positive just automatically stopped and the researcher's forced to deal with it, he says

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