Anonymous #1 2w

I’m a bit concerned they may have not gotten IRB approval for the survey (or at least not for it to be conducted on people outside their school/institution) bc at least every IRB I’ve dealt with undergrad and graduate level required an IRB disclosure section and/or a link within the survey to the IRB’s webpage/email before approval was given. And I’m only concerned bc if they didn’t get that approval and we take the survey, they have to throw out all their data and can’t use it for their thesis

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Anonymous #2 2w

oh that’s true…it should give PI/uni/consent form info too. i wouldn’t expect a grad student to make that kind of mistake, though, that’s really strange

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Anonymous #1 2w

And again this is just based on my experience, we weren’t supposed to have required questions. And a blurb that said “you can stop the survey at any time” within the consent section. Not to mention they were big on anonymous vs non anonymous survey approvals. Non anonymous (like the name in the consent section) had to follow a very strict protocol that this one doesn’t meet.

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Anonymous #2 2w

yeah same here - i’m working on my undergrad thesis now, also trying to navigate the irb lol. ngl i’m not convinced this is actually for a grad thesis? or it shouldn’t be, there’s so many irb red flags, and there’s no way this doesn’t require irb approval

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Anonymous #1 2w

This feels very geared towards an audience with a very specific type of education, not a general use statistical analysis survey. But hey who knows maybe they just have a super lax IRB at their institution and I’ve just been unlucky with the strict ones

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Anonymous #2 2w

hmm, maybe…i feel like requiring names should categorize it under at least expedited IRB review under the common rule, which means there should be an IRB approval number and university contact info. but idk, been a while since i had to do trainings on technical requirements

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