Data Ethics Quiz

You decided to write an article for a special issue of an undergraduate research journal. You spent the last two years conducting your research and have just finished analyzing your results. While writing the results section of your article, you realize that the data from one of your control groups drastically weakens your results and, more importantly, the significance of your research. You choose not to include the inconvenient results from the control group in your article; however, you do honestly report on all of the data included in your article. This is an example of:

You've opted to present at the university's Undergraduate Research Symposium and are finalizing you poster. You realize that you need a solid definition for a key term related to your research so others attending the symposium will understand your work. You use the library's website to locate a book that contains the perfect definition. You don't have any space on your poster for references, but you opt to include the definition anyways. This is an example of:

As a researcher, you've made the discovery of a lifetime. The cure for cancer. The only problem is you didn't obtain proper permissions to use or share the sensitive data that is the foundation of your research. In order to share your results, you'll also need to share your methods and results, which includes the sensitive data. You decide to go public with your discovery, as the potential to cure cancer and save millions of lives is more important than your participants privacy. Is this decision an ethical choice?

Data can include:

Is data ethics important just in professional life?

Is self-plagiarism a serious type of plagiarism?

Can fabrication and plagiarism overlap?

If you need to use an author's exact words, what do you do?

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