Responsible Conduct in Data Management
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Protect the privacy of participants by limiting data collected from participants.
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Dr. Lee encourages Dr. Burgess to recognize that indeed it would be possible for participants to be identified.

These are some possible outcomes:

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Dr. Burgess attempts to devise a coding strategy that increases the difficulty in identifying participants.
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Dr. Burgess reconceptualizes the investigation so that less data from participants is collected and recorded, decreasing the probability of participant identification.

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Dr. Burgess recognizes that the requirements needed to insure confidentiality would change the scope of the study by reducing the number of variables collected.