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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should be aware that real research goes through an IRB, right? You may not have to get IRB approval at your current level, but the actual research community does take unintended consequences into account, as well as intended ones.

You are supposed to think about how you can inflict harm with the process you pursue, and you are supposed to avoid that. No way in hell actual research would progress with posts like those described by Jeff.

It's not research at that point. It's trolling for funsies. It isn't data acquired in a rigorous, ethical, systematic way -- it's what's called "shit-kicking." Look it up. That is what you are doing, and frankly, it's nothing to be proud of.[/quote]

Sorry, but this study WAS approved. It’s a very different situation when it’s an anonymous forum board like this. It was approved under the agreement that we use a fake name for DCUM and the counties/areas/schools in our actual study to protect anonymity of our subjects. This isn’t the first time a study like this has been done, and it won’t be the last. People have gone incognito and pretended to be members of a community for research all the time. We aren’t harming people by posting on an anonymous board any more than anyone else who posts here does. It isn’t our fault that many people on here are divisive in nature. If a 10 page thread started because we asked self-described liberal parents who opposed MCPS’ boundary study to explain why and that thread turned into a dumpster fire, that’s not exactly our fault. We never posted anything harmful. There’s a huge difference between controversial and harmful, and what we posted was sometimes the former.

Also, to Jeff: You don’t have to read every post or every thread to come across overt racism on DCUM. You can come across racism in seconds, especially in the MCPS or Real Estate forums. You know they exist if you know they’re “hot button topics,” and you’ve even admitted in other threads that you keep this forum anonymous because it allows many of those controversial discussions to exist. [/quote]

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