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  • #201
    Originally posted by AliCat View Post
    So I can report the OP to the mods and have this thread deleted?
    I did that hours ago.
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    • #202
      I have to admit, even without the addition of the undercover troll I have a hard time figuring out which team many of you guys play for. Both sides are throwing so much manure you all look brown.
      McDowell Racing Stables

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      • #203
        This thread has just went plain ole bonkers. Geeessshhh I've never seen so much fuss come about from a pic I don't think. It is what it is and if you wanna change it do something about it if not then shhhhh. And grad student I don't know so much if I believe that. Not sure about your cover story but hope you had a good time on your train wreck.
        Horses aren't our whole life, but makes our life whole

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        • #204
          I'm just going to guess, for future reference, that it's highly unlikely the mods will poof this thread. You guys aired your dirty laundry in public. The interwebz are forever.

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          • #205
            Originally posted by LoveAllThingsEquine View Post
            Thanks to everyone who offered opinions. I will come clean now. I am a grad student, but not in animal science. I am working on a thesis dealing with Internet interactions.

            I needed a controversial subject. I have a roomie who is 'into" jumper/hunters, and she suggested the commercial carriage industry. I have been lurking on the public face book pages of both the radical animal rights activist and the pro-carriage industry for sometime now.

            I do realize that much more probably goes on on the private pages that some posters kept referring to in this posts. But the responses my post got here, also suggested by my roomie are very helpful in my research.

            I will be using and citing some of your posts, but will totally change even the Internet IDs you use, and page names mentioned when I write my paper.

            I have to admit in spite of the name I posted under, I don't know much about horses at all. I don't own or ride them. I have taken a carriage ride once in Charleston.

            Oh, I am a psych major. My particular area of interest right now is how Internet interaction may be affecting real life interactions. I am very interested in cyberstalking and cyberbullying. I am studying their relation to similar stalking and bullying behaviors and situations in real life.
            I call BS.

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            • #206
              Originally posted by LoveAllThingsEquine View Post
              Thanks to everyone who offered opinions. I will come clean now. I am a grad student, but not in animal science. I am working on a thesis dealing with Internet interactions.

              I needed a controversial subject. I have a roomie who is 'into" jumper/hunters, and she suggested the commercial carriage industry. I have been lurking on the public face book pages of both the radical animal rights activist and the pro-carriage industry for sometime now.

              I do realize that much more probably goes on on the private pages that some posters kept referring to in this posts. But the responses my post got here, also suggested by my roomie are very helpful in my research.

              I will be using and citing some of your posts, but will totally change even the Internet IDs you use, and page names mentioned when I write my paper.

              I have to admit in spite of the name I posted under, I don't know much about horses at all. I don't own or ride them. I have taken a carriage ride once in Charleston.

              Oh, I am a psych major. My particular area of interest right now is how Internet interaction may be affecting real life interactions. I am very interested in cyberstalking and cyberbullying. I am studying their relation to similar stalking and bullying behaviors and situations in real life.
              Hmm.

              Most grad students don't describe themselves as "majoring" in the field that they are doing their Masters or Doctorate work in.

              And if you are pursuing a MS or PhD in Psychology, then I want to know how you designed an experiment that involved baiting a bunch of people on the internet.

              What does your university's Committee on the Use of Human Research Subjects have to say about this? Even if you are an undergrad screwing around and majoring in Psychology, I know that you know what a Committee on the Use of Human Research Subjects is and why they exist.

              If you plan to use the results of this thread in your research, then you had better explain, otherwise you and your thesis are SOL.
              Last edited by mvp; Jul. 16, 2012, 01:06 AM.
              The armchair saddler
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              • #207
                It's BS

                Graduate research MUST pass an Ethics Board and OTHER hoops on ANY studies involving human subjects.

                Did this pass the University's screening? What University? What department? What University office signed off on the research?

                If it's for an undergraduate paper -- this is plan old poor research and data collection.

                Grow up.

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                • #208
                  Oh, it's worse than that.

                  See, there are rules about how experiments using people are done. Among other things, participants have to be made aware that they are being studied. The risks of their participation must be outlined. They also must be formally given the right to opt out without penalty at any time. I'm not sure what the rules are about citing their remarks, even with names changed.

                  This study didn't include any of the notice to its participants before hand. Whatever the OP learned from this thread, I'm not sure how it can be used in any thesis he/she would submit in partial fulfillment of degree requirements.

                  You really don't want to run afoul of a university's Committee on the Use of Human Research Subjects. Any COTHer who got riled up and feels aggrieved by this thread is entitled to bring his/her complaints to that Committee.
                  The armchair saddler
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                  • #209
                    To bad even with all the scholastic advice given that the OP is either a put out current/former with and axe to grind or a Activist that punked the heck out of COTH and associates today.
                    "I would not beleive her if her tongue came notorized"

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                    • #210
                      Deja-vu all over again.

                      Didn't someone else pull the "thank you all, I was just doing research" cop-out recently?

                      Damn, if you're gonna troll come up with some original material, or at bare minimum something that hasn't been done recently. Recycling something so recent and obvious is lamer than a foundered arthritic pony with abscesses in all four.

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                      • #211
                        Originally posted by LauraKY View Post
                        I'm just going to guess, for future reference, that it's highly unlikely the mods will poof this thread. You guys aired your dirty laundry in public. The interwebz are forever.
                        I just want to know why some carriage owners have such deep rage and anger. Sounds like someone graduated from the Alec Baldwin school of anger management.

                        The carriage trade needs to weed out the bad owners and police their profession so that when people do object, they can show that they are taking good care of the horses.

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                        • #212
                          The OP's other roommate must be bayou_bengal, since they shared the same IP addresses...

                          We've banned both accounts and are closing the thread.
                          Thanks,
                          Mod 1

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