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Men of Middle Earth awards:
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So Fucking much
AND the creativity of the Original Poster.
theme music for the WIN.
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(reposted in its entirety from deadlychameleon who is the "I" referenced below)
In regards to surveyfail: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/SurveyFail
I called the Boston University IRB office. The direct approach works.
They've gotten a lot of emails regarding Dr. Ogas. He is no longer in any way affiliated with Boston University, except as a recent graduate. They have asked him to stop using his official Boston University email address in connection with this project, or his website. He is officially on his own, and this project is NOT IRB APPROVED.
That is the official status as stated by the Boston University IRB office.
The problem with this is threefold:
1. The researcher has no expertise in the area he is researching, nor has he recruited anyone to give him guidance.
2. The researcher has substantial profit motivation to produce work in this area (book contract with Penguin) which may lead to unethical conduct/a tendency to misrepresent his results.
3. The research is in no way overseen by any external body which can examine it for potential unethical conduct.
In addition to all of these, the researchers have now alienated their participant population, who are now very likely to become unreliable participants.
The only way to salvage the study at this point, I believe, would be for them to change it to an observational one.
ETA: if you want to share, please repost with attribution, that way people don't have to click through to get the information. If people need to contact me, they're certainly free to do so, but I'd like the discussion to spread out.
Also, all comments here are based on the information I had at the time of posting - if it turns out to be inaccurate, my deepest apologies. My statements regarding the problems with this research are based on my personal opinions, and should be taken as such.
ETA 2: I need to do other things for awhile, so I apologize if comments go unanswered. I should add that the IRB stated they contacted Dr. Ogas, and confirmed that this was indeed his project (they also gave him some basic methodological suggestions, despite the fact that he's no longer affiliated). They claim he's been very receptive to their suggestions. I say this just to confirm that YES THIS IS HIS PROJECT, and probably not a case of stolen identity.
ETA 3: Oh look who just f-locked his entries. Anyone with screencaps? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
ETA 4: Hopefully the last ETA I'm going to need to make.
I don't even know offhand where the line between unethical and illegal begins here, because they're so far past anything I'd ever do.
To start with:
1. Lack of proper anonymity/privacy protections for participants potentially admitting to illegal activity.
2. Lack of proper anonymity/privacy protections for participants potentially admitting to things that could negatively impact them at work and in their communities were they to become known.
3. Lack of any kind of age statement - this is methods 101 people, you always ask if a person is over 18, otherwise you need parental consent for any research study.
4. Lack of ANY kind of informed consent. No statement that you may withdraw from the research at any time. No statement saying what the research will be used for. No statement of risk vs. benefit. No statement regarding deception. No statement giving the affiliations of the researchers.
This is BAD RESEARCH, not to belabor the point. As one commenter pointed out, it's one thing when it's a survey about ice cream flavors. But the risk level here is fairly high. It's possible for someone to lose their job were this information to become public and identified with a given person.
ETA: Wearing the Juice: A Case Study in Research Implosion, wonderful entry from a research-end person.
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Plenty of holes. None of them mattered to me. I confess to not seeing all the movies- they disappointed me early, and I just let them go by.
I haven't rewatched all of TOS, either. I'm old enough to have seen them with my parents, week to week- my mother loved how subversive they were, my dad enjoyed the nods to actual science as much as he got a kick out of the nods to his favorite sci-fi authors, themes, and jokes. I was intrigued by the characters, by their development and by their relationships, but all too soon had to go off and be a grown-up myself, and just haven't had time to dive back in. Did spend some time with TNG, but more for the voices than the shows themselves- it was when I was laid low with a major depression, and would have it on in the background for companionship.
So, confessing to spotty knowledge and inexact fandom (or the other way around, whatever *F*): I loved this movie.
I could always, always always have had more of McCoy. Even more now, and who knows, I may just have to write him at some point to hear more of his story, but oh, I am a happy happy person with Bones. Kirk was good, Spock was damn fine, I liked this Sulu and got a kick out of this Scotty, and I feel Uhura is wronged again, always, but has a better chance this time at personhood so I'm appreciative of what Zoe Saldana brought.
But what I enjoy most, as a story-teller, is that I feel free to bring my own story to the movie. There are parts I reject as not matching my experience of Star Trek- and I feel like that's ok, that's allowed for, and I like that. There are technical things that annoy me, and other things that delight me, and I'll see it again in theatre and probably, at some point, end up owning it (I want the commentaries on the DVD to be good, damnit!).
So I'm gonna give it two thumbs up, a whole basketfull of fresh tomatoes, and a big smile- and hope for more McCoy in the next one. Damnit, Jim, I'm a fangirl, not a critic, and I want more McCoy. *nods*
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and so very little brain available for sorting the words to begin writing about anything.
mostly because it's such a relief to be (nearly) done with uni. i'm terrified of the student loan debt, but it'll be manageable- i just need to remember to breathe, and it'll work out. these last two papers are coming along, finally, thanks to help from friends (what WOULD we do without friends, i ask you?), and i expect to have them done well enough and in the mail to the professor by friday.
but i'm also rendered wordless (as i babble on) by such an intense love for being alive. i want - well, not to live forever, that'd be a lot of work, and lonely, after a while- but i want to live for a good nother 20 years or so, and i want it so MUCH- desire's dangerous, it's a hook dangling us over disappointment and failure, regret and depression- but oh, oh! i do love being alive, and living, and having a life to live in, and i just- i have to say so this once, early in the (christian, western, revised-several-times) calendar year.
anyway. /sentimentality- i'm tired, tonight, and that always makes the barrier between pleasure and weepiness very thin for me (if that's even what it's between... ah, rambling).
short list of what i'm up to:
catching up with the people i've let drift away (or drifted away from) over the last two years. you know who you are, and i swear i'm here, coming back to you.
keeping healthy/getting healthier (today's not-sleeping-well aside).
finishing these papers, and thus, uni.
earning/saving/appreciating money.
getting 'life-chore' things taken care of- car serviced, medical appointments made, storage pared down, fun had.
writing.
seeing family- younger son was here for christmas; older son and grandson came a few days ago, and we went to see Yes Man (fun, that); and am gathering up scraps of old favorite fabrics to send to my mother for the quilt she's making for my brother's new baby-to-be.
reading for pleasure, watching ken burns, taking care of my tiny winter garden (jeez, the frost didn't help last night, did it? lol! i know, i know, it's not snow. thank god- we've no sanding, no snowplows, no snow tires).
taking this marvelous education i've gotten, and the life experience i've had during the getting of said education, and creating an even deeper and more textured understanding of life.
so. that is all. i didn't participate in any holiday fic-things, nor have i really written any fic/the little au for a while, but there's wonderful things out there in the holiday fic-world, and the men are still around, talking quietly amongst themselves.
fandom brought me to lj, lj brought me to a new understanding of how big and how small this world is, and that's brought me all of you.
blessings on your heads, y'all.
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| 2008-03-15 13:51 |
| Ethics, politics, the world, fanfic, and music |
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the first three can be summed up here: Monks Protest in Tibet and Nepal. Candles vs. automatic weapons; bare arms and heads against full body armor; the search for compassion, connection, and peace vs. fear, loneliness, and hate.
and the second? Idaho Mortensen and the Obelisk of Osiris. As the author says, It's funny, it's cheesy, it's even work-safe.
Me? I've finished vacuuming the Mail program on the big computer. I've been swimming. I've prayed for my fandom. I've talked with friends about my trip to Europe.
And now I'm going to bed. Blessings on your heads, each and every one of you.
Ah. And, courtesy of ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) poetic_self: Ray LaMontagne, Till the Sun Turns Black.
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