Alicorn comments on Informed consent bias in RCTs? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 27 January 2012 03:39:02AM 3 points [-]

I wonder, are you allowed to sign people up to be part of a study within some parameters within some time period (e.g. "you're signing up to participate in a study in which we may lie to you sometime in the next year")?

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 27 January 2012 04:39:38AM 2 points [-]

Probably not. I've heard (from experimenters) that just getting economic experiments approved by a university institutional review board, where subjects are paid to sit in front of a computer and play a relatively simple game often with a chat feature to communicate with other subjects, can be problematic - and there's no deception going on in these.