Together with a psychologist, I’m currently performing a comparatively simple interview study about the effectiveness of a software engineering method. Proper procedure is paramount in psychology, so we submitted an ethics review request to my employer’s institutional (ethics) review board. I didn’t think we’d need the ethics approval, and lo and behold the ethics board wrote back that they didn’t think they could review our request nor did they think an approval was needed. So far so good. Today then, I received an invoice from the ethics commission for their services.
Being charged for an ethics approval is a first for me; is this common?
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