[EL] Push polling

[dschultz at hamline.edu]

Good point Barry. Deception must be risk managed. My point is that an IRB would approve a push poll unless other protections or procedures were in place. 
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From: "Barry C. Burden" <bcburden at wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 14:37:53 
To: Schultz, David A.<dschultz at hamline.edu>; Adam Bonin<adam at boninlaw.com>
Cc: <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
Subject: Re: [EL] Push polling

Agree with Adam. 

By the way, researchers engage in deception all of the time. Much of the work done by lab psychologists requires deception to make the experiments effective. IRBs are clearly approving those projects. It's all about balancing risk and benefit, plus adequate debriefing after the study is done. Push "polls" don't follow any of these guidelines.


Barry


On 05/03/13, "Schultz, David A."  <dschultz at hamline.edu> wrote:
> Amen to Adam.
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> Furthermore, the only way a push-poll works is by deception--describing to someone something that is not true.
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> I chaired our Human Subjects Research Panel for a decade. If research proposal came before me or my committee with a survey relying upon deception we would not have approved it. Such polling would arguably violate federal law (45 CFR 46) regarding the use of human subjects for research.
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> Remember that the Stanley Milgram experiment relied on deception and the lack of informed consent is one of the problems with that experiment. Push-polling uses deception and rests upon a violation of informed consent.
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> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Adam Bonin <adam at boninlaw.com> wrote:
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> > If it’s ethical, and a “valuable service,” it’s not a push poll. A push poll is an advertisement done over the phone in the form of a poll. It is not a poll.
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> > From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Jon Roland
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> > Not necessarily. There are all kinds of push polls. I can certainly design one that would be ethical and a valuable service to public discourse.
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> > On 05/03/2013 01:35 PM, Michael P McDonald wrote: 
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> > You say that a poll should not pretend to be something it is not. A hallmark of a push poll is falsehoods masquerading as a poll, thereby giving the impression they must be true since they are delivered in a question format that credible polling organizations use.
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