A query...

[Mark P. Line]

Actually, I'm not sure we do agree.

I was trying to say that if you have a story that can't be disseminated to
other researchers, then you can't use it as data for published studies.

What I thought you were saying was that there can be stories that you use
as data for published studies but which you cannot disseminate. That's
what I would disagree with, because I believe that the data used for a
published study has to be made available for the reasons Dan pointed out.

If that's not what you were saying, then carry on and ignore me. :)

-- Mark

Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX



Miriam Meyerhoff wrote:
> Precisely. I'm glad you agree.
>
> best, mm
>
> At 16:44 -0500 24/10/06, Mark P. Line wrote:
>>Miriam Meyerhoff wrote:
>>>
>>>  But I'm sorry, people, the recording of the woman telling me about her
>>>  rape -- you can't have that.
>>
>>If the subject of rape is integral to your research, then it seems like
>>you you would have addressed ethical issues relating to data
>> dissemination
>>before you chose your informants.
>>
>>If the subject of rape is not integral to your research, then it seems
>>like you could do without that particular story in your dataset.
>>
>>
>>-- Mark
>>
>>Mark P. Line
>>Polymathix
>>San Antonio, TX
>
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