ETHICS OF

RESEARCH
CHARACTERISTICS, PROSSES, ETHICS OF RESEARCH
 WHAT IS ETHICS?

• AT ITS SIMPLEST, ETHICS IS A SYSTEM OF MORAL PRINCIPLES. THEY

AFFECT HOW PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS AND LEAD THEIR LIVES.
ETHICS IS CONCERNED WITH WHAT IS GOOD FOR INDIVIDUALS AND
SOCIETY AND IS ALSO DESCRIBED AS MORAL PHILOSOPHY. THE TERM
IS DERIVED FROM THE GREEK WORD ETHOS WHICH CAN MEAN
CUSTOM, HABIT, CHARACTER OR DISPOSITION.

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 ETHICS OF RESEARCH

1. HONESTY
2. INTEGRITY
3. OPENNESS
4. CONFIDENTIALITY
5. RESPECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
6. RESPONSIBLE MONITORING
7. RESPECT COLLEAGUES
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 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESEARCH

• EMPIRICAL - BASED ON OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTATION

• SYSTEMATIC - FOLLOWS ORDERLY AND SEQUENTIAL PROCEDURE.
• CONTROLLED - ALL VARIABLES EXCEPT THOSE THAT ARE TESTED/EXPERIMENTED UPON ARE KEPT CONSTANT.
• EMPLOYS HYPOTHESIS - GUIDES THE INVESTIGATION PROCESS
• ANALYTICAL - THERE IS CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ALL DATA USED SO THAT THERE IS NO ERROR IN THEIR
INTERPRETATION
• OBJECTIVE, UNBIASED, & LOGICAL - ALL FINDINGS ARE LOGICALLY BASED ON EMPIRICAL.
• EMPLOYS QUANTITATIVE OR STATISTICAL METHODS - DATA ARE TRANSFORMED INTO NUMERICAL MEASURES AND
ARE TREATED STATISTICALLY.

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