Author Question: All of the following are ethical concerns raised by anthropologists who work in military projects ... (Read 80 times)

Lisaclaire · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

All of the following are ethical concerns raised by anthropologists who work in military projects such as Human Terrain Systems (HTS) except:

a. Inability to obtain informed consent.
b. Inability to keep the confidentiality of informants.
c. Secretive nature of so much of the research data.
d. Safety of informants.
e. Inability to pay the informants adequately.

Question 2

For the academic community, a critical problem with secret research is:

a. It may endanger the lives of the anthropologists who pursue it.
b. The scientific community has no way to assess its validity.
c. It is almost always used for illegal or immoral purposes.
d. It is unlikely to provide benefits to either anthropologists or the people who are the subjects of such research.
e. It can rarely be used to support the tenure and promotion of anthropology professors.