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A researcher told students that their responses to an online survey on cheating were anonymous. One question asked students for their email address to use in a raffle drawing. Instead, the researcher used this to locate GPAs in school files so he could correlate frequency of cheating and GPA. Which ethical principles were violated in this situation

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Informed consent and anonymity

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This researcher has violated the anonymous and informed consent clause. Informed consent has to do with participants knowing the reasons for the informations they provide before they give it out. This researcher was not honest with the students because what he told them he needed the emails for was different from what he ended up using them for. He breached the anonymous clause and the privacy of the students by doing this.

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