Research Methods Week 11

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    You find some good images on the web that would look good on your site. You copy and paste them to your blog.

We have to contact the Owner of the Image and ask for his permission.If we can not contact him at least we should give the credit to him by showing the Source from where we have found that Image


    You are in a hurry to finish an assignment and you find the perfect explanation of a difficult concept on Wikipedia. You decide to copy it into your work.

The Main Issue is going to be directly copying and paste the same content as it is on the web then it will be Plagiarism. The Best Way to do is Read the Article get a good idea about it and write in your Owen words


    You are a medical researcher and you think you have discovered a new drug that cures lung cancer. It worked well on mice although a few of them died of heart problems. You want to test it on people. You recruit 100 lung cancer patients in your treatment programme. You don’t tell them about the new drug. You treat 50 patients with usual drugs and 50 with the new drug to see which is better.

This is a Big Risk and a Serious Ethical issue cause, the research has no proper result. If you apply this to humans it will give a different kind of reacts on their body, although they are suffering from cancer they are not Lab Rats. if you are applying the Drug to Patients you should have their permissions as well some people wouldn't allow you to test the drug on them. So without a Proper Result, we should not test the drug on Patients


    You are doing your PhD about drug abuse among students. You interview 30 students about their drug use. You discover that one of the students is actually a fairly big-time dealer and you report him to the police.

There should be a process to support and protect both side Researcher and the Subject and the Research datils should be confidential  and it should be anonymous to be a success full research 


    You are a researcher looking at the effect of violent computer games on children. You recruit 20 children into your study. Over a month you regularly show them images of violence to see if it has an adverse effect on their behaviour. One of the children becomes quite distressed each time and so you stop showing her images and drop her from the study.

First, we have to check which video game she has been playing and Monitor and find those who are playing the video game that affects most


    You want to research how easy it is to hack into your organisation’s computer system by persuading people to divulge login and password details. You recruit a small team to ring up key people in the organisation and persuade them to give either their own or their boss’s details.


In the modern world this is normal Most of the Big companies will do like this,  This method call as Vanuralabilty Test You can hire a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) to do this. There is a Lot of company who do this and the cost will be very high. Some people can be concern about this because they would think that by doing this there data would be revealed to everyone or if someone use that data. When these Vanurakalbility test is happening there will be an agreement between the company and the testing Team so there won't be any data leaks by doing this kind of test


    You are doing initial research in the area of a town where many bars and pubs are located, to estimate the level of problematic social behaviour in the area. your research is independent of the police because you want to observe their behaviour as well. You observe both abusive and violent behaviour.


 The Best way to go and observe and if you can place a camera it would be safer because sometimes it would be a problem if we go there and try to observe