Practice question · True or false
If a project is clearly beneficial, an applied anthropologist may skip informed consent to save time.
Hints
- Ask who gets to decide what counts as beneficial.
- Assumed benefit is not a substitute for asking.
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False
Why
No projected benefit suspends consent, the people studied get to define their own good. "Beneficial without asking" is precisely the paternalism the discipline’s ethics codes were written against.
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