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."

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...

ita's sister, you have all of buffistae behind you. FUCK THEM UP

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.

She's taking the info I forwarded to her to the Dean of her university.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

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.

People on Daily Kos could not *believe* the amount of craxy internet to which I have been a witness(can I get a witness? sorry, always wanted to say that.Anyway...) They are always SO shocked by Olbermann's twitter fights(I'm shocked he can write a thought under 140 characters, but other than that...all in the game, right?) And he flounces like a fourteen-year-old Bieber fan. Which, admittedly, is a discouraging thing to find in a hero, but not shocking, once you get like Helen Keller about it and realize "Everything has a name." and that,sir, is the Great Flounce-off. But I was like "Did he steal Markos' code and make the Daily Keith and write that we all suck?" No. Did he create Baseball Tropes with a bunch of fans, take all the credit and fake his own death? No. Well, we win.

Holy shit, ita. That's bananas!

I'm at UCLA with a group of students today. I just listened to another instructor explain a poem we did in class a few weeks ago so beautifully (and energetically... plus he explained assonance much more thoroughly than I did).

I'm with le n, I doubt this is a proper study as it is so badly constructed. I would have expected a survey on the subject instead. Creepy.

Went to the doctor today hoping to get an Rx for my cough. Instead I got an Rx for antibios which I was instructed to not fill yet. Minor grrr. I miss my sleep. Oh well.

Shocked and appalled, ita !. Also suspicious. There was a scam wherein a guy would call pretending to do a survey, ask women (among other survey questions) if they were single, and if the answer was yes, he would call back the next night to "thank" them for taking the survey and incidentally, are you home alone tonight? (I hung up on him when the survey questions got personal, and when he called back I cursed at him and called the police. I bet a lot of women went right along answering questions, though.) All of which is to say, maybe that student is saying they were part of a study, but they made it up to hit on people. I can't imagine any overseeing board approving such a study, or any professor either.