Dr. Assouline, While I do appreciate your response on this thread, I am not comfortable with the IRB explanation you gave. I understand that IRB processes are cumbersome. That is not a reasonable explanation for simply not seeking IRB approval for me.
While I do have some familiarity with IRB and am researching more, I do also want to clarify something related to your post. You stated that you have not published statistics from the local items survey b/c you did not get IRB approval. Are you saying that informed consent of parents and IRB approval is only necessary if you plan on publishing results from your survey?
I admit that I may be wrong, but that was not my understanding of IC/IRB. I had thought that IC and IRB approval was necessary to conduct a human subjects experiment (including surveying children on their beliefs about intelligence, etc.) not just if you want to use the results of the experiment for publication.
