(Choose 1 answer)
Consider the following situation.
Mike is a first year undergraduate studying Philosophy at university and his housemate, Jon, is a first year Nutrition student. As part of one of his courses, Jon needs to collect data on the eating habits of first year university students. To do this, he has asked Mike and nine of his other friends to keep a record of what they eat, and when, for a week.
Mike agrees to help, and keeps a fairly accurate record of what he has eaten. When the week is up Jon asks Mike to email him his data. However, when Mike is typing up his eating habits for the week, he realises that he hasn't eaten any vegetables at all. Not wanting to seem unhealthy, especially because he doesn't want Jon to judge him, he pretends that he made a pumpkin soup and adds that to his list. He also adds a couple of salads to some of his main meals and deletes one of the chocolate bars. Satisfied, he emails the list to Jon.
What is the problem in this scenario?
A. Mike is falsifying data and this will twist the results of Jon's research.
B. Jon should have asked strangers, not his friends, to collect the data for his assignment.
C. Jon didn't go through ethics approval before collecting his data.
D. Mike is a Philosophy student and therefore Jon shouldn't have asked him.
Exit (18
