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Consider the following situation.
Mike is a first year undergraduate studying Philosophy at university and his housemate, Jon,Nutrition student. As part of one of his courses, Jon needs to collect data on the eating habits university students. To do this, he has asked Mike and nine of his other friends to keep a rec eat, and when, for a week.
Mike agrees to help, and keeps a fairly accurate record of what he has eaten. When the weel Mike to email him his data. However, when Mike is typing up his eating habits for the week, I hasn't eaten any vegetables at all. Not wanting to seem unhealthy, especially because he do judge him, he pretends that he made a pumpkin soup and adds that to his list. He also adds to some of his main meals and deletes one of the chocolate bars. Satisfied, he emails the list 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.
