tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post8644702715844485042..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: IRBUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68085702002588757522011-08-26T20:43:14.793-04:002011-08-26T20:43:14.793-04:00My school has a very silly committee that function...My school has a very silly committee that functions as an IRB, and their rule is pretty much "If it's about sex, swearing, or drugs, we disapprove." One of my students wanted to research the impact of swearing in different public venues (not sure why, but she was shot down by our "IRB" simply because swearing might be harmful to those within proximity of its occurrence.&The Contemplative Cynichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088570661592922436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-4224664182231074842011-08-26T12:58:54.258-04:002011-08-26T12:58:54.258-04:00But Wanderer, any professor who brings in grant mo...But Wanderer, any professor who brings in grant money is, at least by <a href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/08/25/pm-making-professors-more-productive/" rel="nofollow">definitions now common in Texas,</a> "productive," and you, with your time-consuming committee work and teaching, are not. Hence you should, of course, drop everything to make the productive Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-5457227232597950122011-08-26T06:45:33.030-04:002011-08-26T06:45:33.030-04:00I have to agree re: the legalistic language that c...I have to agree re: the legalistic language that comes from IRBs. If that's what our institutions' insurance requires, then there we are, but I have certainly had research participants pull out of a project they believed was socially valuable because they felt intimidated by the agreed language of the consent form...Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448174962889473132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-88237983516327355662011-08-26T04:18:30.251-04:002011-08-26T04:18:30.251-04:00fubar.
been there.fubar.<br />been there.Southern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-6969318628847878152011-08-26T03:39:08.188-04:002011-08-26T03:39:08.188-04:00Then there's the other side of the coin—like t...Then there's the other side of the coin—like the psychology prof at our undergrad school who studied how emotional state affected the experience of chronic pain. The psych students we knew had no idea how he'd gotten the IRB to sign off on reducing people to tears before subjecting them to electric shocks.Annapolis Aethelfrithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00290825745119689163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40373331000921370472011-08-25T22:29:20.001-04:002011-08-25T22:29:20.001-04:00My grad school also had a medical school, and the ...My grad school also had a medical school, and the entire IRB was composed of med school and natural science faculty. My dissertation used only social science methodology for the human subjects portion. Despite the fact that the uni gave doctorates in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as the notorious EdD degree, you would've thought I'd sent them a proposal in Klingon. EnglishDochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12046114978214062491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-80763206127334802842011-08-25T21:53:51.515-04:002011-08-25T21:53:51.515-04:00That'd be an Institutional/Internal Review Boa...That'd be an Institutional/Internal Review Board.<br /><br />My best story would give too much away, but let's say it had to be the most ridiculous turn-down for human subject work ever in the history of such turn-downs. It was for an undergraduate thesis, and involved fully anonymized field interviews of people involved in a routine everyday activity that anybody who engages in it would Angry Archiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07348431132289025339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-68862352258640027242011-08-25T20:58:40.860-04:002011-08-25T20:58:40.860-04:00Okay, I'll bite. What the hell is an IRB?Okay, I'll bite. What the hell is an IRB?Academic Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07086078244493768565noreply@blogger.com