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'''''This page is in flux, having been deleted, and recreated as part of
[[Wikiversity:Community_
Review/Wikimedia_Ethics:Ethical_Breaching_Experiments|this]]
review (March 2010)'''''
==Planning an experiment==
Maybe have a look at [[w:Scientific method]] first, and make some notes
about your intended experiment, it is unlikely to be reasonable at this
time for you to plan an experiment here.
==Technical 'how to'==
It' also worth reviewing [[w:Blind experiment]] for information on why
it's probably best for some experiments to retain some information in
private until results are published ('Blind experiments are an important
tool of the scientific method').
=='The ethics of breaching ethics' - describing several possible ethical lapses==
The word ethics is used to describe adherence to proper conduct and
morality. In breaching agreed ethics a person is immediately guilty of
improper conduct.
===Moral duty===
Often the particulars of ethics may be in dispute, is one thing proper
conduct or is another thing proper conduct. A breach of ethics with such
a view is a rebellious sort, a statement of right and wrong and, as
viewed by the offending party, the fulfillment of a moral obligation
regardless of the consequnces.
===Immorality===
Breaching ethics without the view that actions are morally correct or
with the view that moral conduct is unimportant or should not be adhered
to is immoral conduct.
===Significance===
Often in defining a breach of ethical conduct an allusion is made to the
significance of an act, i.e. perhaps an act is so insignificant that it
did not breach ethics, was committed innocently in play.
[[Wikiversity:Community_
Review/Wikimedia_Ethics:Ethical_Breaching_Experiments|this]]
review (March 2010)'''''
==Planning an experiment==
Maybe have a look at [[w:Scientific method]] first, and make some notes
about your intended experiment, it is unlikely to be reasonable at this
time for you to plan an experiment here.
==Technical 'how to'==
It' also worth reviewing [[w:Blind experiment]] for information on why
it's probably best for some experiments to retain some information in
private until results are published ('Blind experiments are an important
tool of the scientific method').
=='The ethics of breaching ethics' - describing several possible ethical lapses==
The word ethics is used to describe adherence to proper conduct and
morality. In breaching agreed ethics a person is immediately guilty of
improper conduct.
===Moral duty===
Often the particulars of ethics may be in dispute, is one thing proper
conduct or is another thing proper conduct. A breach of ethics with such
a view is a rebellious sort, a statement of right and wrong and, as
viewed by the offending party, the fulfillment of a moral obligation
regardless of the consequnces.
===Immorality===
Breaching ethics without the view that actions are morally correct or
with the view that moral conduct is unimportant or should not be adhered
to is immoral conduct.
===Significance===
Often in defining a breach of ethical conduct an allusion is made to the
significance of an act, i.e. perhaps an act is so insignificant that it
did not breach ethics, was committed innocently in play.