Looking for research participants who have experienced unpaid wages

[alan_]

That's great.

It doesn't change the fact that claiming that participants will be unpaid, except for coffee, because of "ethics", is bollocks.

Not "ethics" but research ethics was the actual reason. Can you imagine the queue if payment was offered for a workplace hardluck story. Maybe it is indeed as you say "bollocks" but you have to give a bit more reason as to why you think it is

 

[mrs quoad]

Not "ethics" but research ethics was the actual reason. Can you imagine the queue if payment was offered for a workplace hardluck story. Maybe it is indeed as you say "bollocks" but you have to give a bit more reason as to why you think it is

That's logistics, and methodological problems. It's a problem with research design.

I understand that.

But it's not ethics.

"I'm sorry, it's unethical for me to pay you for your time and data." Or, even worse, "it's unethical to pay research participants for their time and data. (But completely unethical for other people not to pay them. Or us!)"

Throwing out "ethics" as a response to a methodological problem - which is understandable - is jargonistic crap whose purpose is, imo, to close down further discussion.

What ethics? Which ones? Oh, you know. "Ethical ethics."

 

[Thimble Queen]

Not "ethics" but research ethics was the actual reason. Can you imagine the queue if payment was offered for a workplace hardluck story. Maybe it is indeed as you say "bollocks" but you have to give a bit more reason as to why you think it is

I dont see how that would differ from offering an incentive in research with a different subject matter. Incentives are offered to participants in a wide range of research projects so it doesn't really hold up here.