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0 pointsDanBC12y ago0 comments

This isn't "potentially life saving research". It's a 25 point question on a quiz.

Edit: here's an image of the assignments to see whT level this is aimed at. The three and five litre jug question, and 7 day time frame, are clues that this in not "life saving research" but in fact a simple assignment in an intro level course.

https://i.imgur.com/yj7aaQA.png

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mschuster9112y ago· 2 in thread

So, are you implying that anything involving potentially "dangerous" stuff like rape, suicide, violence, drinking, war etc is to be reserved only for "serious" academic research and be left out of test questions?

Imagine a test question "To one liter of a water/alcohol mixture in 1:1 ratio half a liter of water is added. What is the new alcohol-to-water ratio?". A former alcohol addict might be "triggered" by this question - but would you exclude it from a test?

Or, in a history test, avoid asking questions about the Afghanistan war because the kid's father lost a leg in Afghanistan?

DanBCOP12y ago

Suicide is one of the biggest causes of death, especially for men in that age range. Suicidality involves complex mental health. It is entirely possible for a person with suicidal thinking to be in treatment for that thinking but also continuing to study at university. Dropping references to suicide into minor assignments is a weird thing to do, especially if it's going to be framed with such odd choice of words.

Rape is similarly common and for some (but not all) victims is extremely distressing.

Can you understand why you don't just drop references to rape and suicide into a short assignment with no other context?

mschuster9112y ago

So what? You're exposed to these topics everytime you watch TV news, listen to any radio station with news reporting, read a newspaper (or the headlines while walking through the city), reading Wikipedia articles, books, basically taking part in life.

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