Holy fuck, that's INSANE. No way could that study and any IRB possibly be within three parallel universes of each other. May your sister tear every single person involved in this study into bite-sized strips.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Mar 30, 2012 8:38:52 am PDT #28829 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2012 8:40:53 am PDT #28830 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, meara. I've forwarded that link to her. She's rotating through a bunch of reactions right now, and, seriously, she was so much nicer than she needed to be, which makes this all the more horrifying. If it had been me, it would have just been "Professor ita ! was as much of a bitch as her reputation would suggest. I'm never having sex as a result of her encounter, since everything hurts forever."
Not the "she made every excuse for me possible and tried to make me as comfortable as possible while I recorded our conversation and pretended to be distraught" that she actually *got*.
Calli - Mar 30, 2012 8:42:23 am PDT #28831 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
And now we reach the lawsuit portion of ita's sister's career. Or equivalent,"This fuckery will not stand," reaction.
meara - Mar 30, 2012 8:45:20 am PDT #28832 of 30001
Also, these people are currently listed on their website as part of the "Research and Grants" office (where the IRB policy I found was). I would contact them to find out who the chair of the IRB is, and if this proposal crossed either of their desks.
You are now viewing information for Reaearch and Grants Name: Ruth Edwards | Location: Reaearch and Grants Internal: 7416 Straight Line: 1-876-963-7416 Name: Felix Omoruyi | Location: Reaearch and Grants Internal: 7417 Straight Line: 1-876-963-7417
(As someone who does research, even if not humanities-type, and knows how slippery slopes can be and how suspicious people can be about research and supposedly shady practices, and who hates having to yell at the TV on Law and Order about things that just don't HAPPEN in the industry...this pisses me off a lot)
Jesse - Mar 30, 2012 8:49:35 am PDT #28833 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now "Straight Line" makes me laugh, even though I realize it's got to be the regional version of what I would say as "Direct Line."
Consuela - Mar 30, 2012 9:02:16 am PDT #28834 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The study is designed to test whether staff members at tertiary institutions across Jamaica engage in heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual relationships with students.
Wow, that's just... WHAT? That's entrapment into career-ending situations. WTF.
Reminds me of the two neuroscientists a few years ago who caused a stir in fandom with a bullshit online survey--when a bunch of people called the BU IRB, the two guys got cast adrift. Didn't stop them from selling the book they wrote about the so-called "results" they got, though...
le nubian - Mar 30, 2012 9:04:01 am PDT #28835 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita's sister, you have all of buffistae behind you. FUCK THEM UP
§ ita § - Mar 30, 2012 9:05:35 am PDT #28836 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm so glad my sister understands I'm going to share this stuff with y'all, but she is always impressed with how fast Buffistas do research. She's taking the info I forwarded to her to the Dean of her university.
Steph L. - Mar 30, 2012 9:11:20 am PDT #28837 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
She's taking the info I forwarded to her to the Dean of her university.
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.
le nubian - Mar 30, 2012 9:17:14 am PDT #28838 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
FWIW,
I am not sure their "research design" such as it is matches the research questions implied in the email. There is no way an IRB would have approved it and since deception was used, they most certainly did not.
Is this a student project or something?
There were so many other ways to go about this including interviewing/surveying students to see how many had relationships with instructors or heard others who had. Then they could have interviewed/surveyed faculty.
The incidence by faculty member and student overall is pretty low in the US (and I would assume it would also be low in Jamaica) so I'm not sure any study would have found much.