Posts by Hilary Stace
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Good to see Ed Gane on sceen. NZ has some outstanding clinicians working in the public health system. He is one.
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Speaker: ‘Kiwimeter’ is a methodological…, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
As a member of ethics committees at various times, I like it when the research applicant comes along to the meeting. Then you can have a discussion about any unclear or controversial details and hear the researchers' justification for them, or decide how things might be amended to improve the project and better answer the research question. It is when the applicant cannot justify something, or hasn't considered why it might be problematic, that issues arise.
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Speaker: ‘Kiwimeter’ is a methodological…, in reply to TeAtaoTu,
Thank you, from a fellow ethics nerd. Do we know whether this survey actually went to an ethics committee?
I am not on a university one, but if this question came up when I was in a position to make a decision about it I would ask for justification for it to be asked this way. I come from a perspective that (almost) all NZ research is relevant to Maori so would expect evidence of consultation with Maori about the whole survey as well as the wording of questions which will obviously be controversial. Peter Davis implies that ethics committees are risk averse, but as a person with some experience I am strongly in favour of doing research which might be controversial or with participants who are considered 'vulnerable' (a term defined by the National Ethics Advisory Committee), but it is important that they are 'researched with' rather than 'researched on'. This survey doesn't seem to be an example of good ethical practice.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Also Scottish, Catholic and anti-Europe so those views might have had something to do with it too. Not an insider.
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But he's not a multi-millionaire old Etonian like most of them.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Angela Hart,
Yes that is fascinating. He was the architect of all those disability cuts we have seen under the Tories - all sorts of areas cut such as housing and benefits and then that terrible ATOS reassessment system. He came to NZ a few years ago to advise the National government here and I went to hear him and asked him a question (can't remember what it was now). But he really seemed to have a deep philosophical commitment to the belief that this would all help disabled people into work and a better life, and the intellectual argument to back it up from his perspective. Where have we heard that before?
But he was not from the wealthy privileged elite group who dominate the British cabinet. I think this resignation came down to a basic personality conflict, and the Treasurer happily cutting more than IDS saw was needed. The latest Budget cuts also finally seemed to attract the attention and derision of the mainstream public rather than just the disability sector that has been outraged for the last 6 years or so. Also finally a PR disaster.
So strange that Iain Duncan Smith comes out on the right side of all of this, as someone with principles. Who would have anticipated that?
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Lancet analysis of zika/microcephaly link from recent outbreak in French Polynesia. Looks like there is an increased risk in the first trimester of pregnancy.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00651-6/fulltext -
Speaker: The real problem with the ‘Kiwimeter’, in reply to izogi,
An ethical requirement of research is that it is well designed and will credibly address a well formulated research question. Doesn't seem like any of this applies here.
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Giovanni Tiso considers the survey
http://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.co.nz/2016/03/what-colour-is-our-nationalism.html
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Thank you for this post. I have heard a lot about this survey from people concerned about the questions and poor methodology.