In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide.
The problem was to recruit volunteers, volunteers to take part in a study that had no therapeutic purpose.
The next year, General Norman Schwarzkopf, the head of the U.S. Army's Central Command, asked him to take part in a study of the threat posed by Saddam.
You are being asked to take part in a study for improving memory in veterans 50 to 90 years of age, who have mild memory problems.
So far, he has agreed only to take part in a study in Washington that focusses on what parallels might exist between law enforcement's treatment of gangs and the military's handling of tribes and clans.
The case began when Ellen Roche, a young, healthy technician working at the Johns Hopkins Asthma and Allergy Center, volunteered to take part in a study to explore the causes of asthma that was being undertaken by Dr. Alkis Togias, an associate professor of immunology at the university.
"But for right now I just want to put my life back in order". So far, he has agreed only to take part in a study in Washington that focusses on what parallels might exist between law enforcement's treatment of gangs and the military's handling of tribes and clans.
Why would you volunteer, you might ask, to take part in a study that has no benefit for you, but whose purpose, in fact, was to use your living body as a natural history exhibit, to observe pathology while the subjects received no treatment, and while their blood serum was used as a culture medium?
And as Alan Smithers of Buckingham University points out, high-achieving schools and pupils are most likely to take part in a study of this kind so a small sample is likely to flatter, and the real picture could be even worse.The tests have changed, so some change in league-table positions could be expected.
In one experiment, designed with the psychologist Paul Condon and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, we recruited people to take part in a study that was ostensibly about the relation of mathematical ability to taste perception — but that in actuality was a study of how the experience of compassion affects your behavior.
The free app invites parents and young children to take part in a study.
