ETHICS IN QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH: Commissions and Omissions

Michael Smithson

doi:10.4324/9781003319733-19

ETHICS IN QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH: Commissions and Omissions

Michael Smithson

School of Medicine and Psychology

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There is an extensive literature on the ethics of quantitative research (e.g., the 18-chapter Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Quantitative Methodology published in 2011). It is beyond the scope of one chapter to survey that literature. Instead, this chapter performs a complementary and supplementary role, examining important but neglected topics and updating accounts of ethical issues in modern quantitative methods. Accordingly, this chapter focuses on three topics: (a) the ethics of Bayesian statistics; (b) ethical issues regarding research replication; and (c) ethics in the regulation of quantitative research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of Human Research Ethics and Integrity in Australia
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	175-186
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040144824
ISBN (Print)	9781003319733
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003319733-19
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2024

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