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Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The ethics committee does not ask the researchers to indicate whether their research entails certain procedures or activities which are often derived from professional guidelines.
Statement II: Ethical issues can not and do not arise at all stages of a research process.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

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UGC NET 2023 Electronic Science Question Paper (13-Dec-2023) (Shift 1)
The correct answer is

Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect

Statement I is incorrect: research ethics committees (institutional review boards/ethics committees) exist precisely to review research proposals, and they do ask researchers to indicate whether their research involves specific procedures or activities that raise ethical concerns, many of which are derived from professional and institutional guidelines, such as informed consent, confidentiality, protection of vulnerable participants, and data protection. The statement's claim that the committee "does not" ask this is the opposite of how ethics committees actually function.
Statement II is incorrect: ethical issues can and do arise at every stage of the research process, from formulating the research question, selecting participants, and obtaining informed consent, through data collection, analysis, and reporting/dissemination of findings. Researchers must remain alert to issues like honesty, privacy, avoidance of harm, and proper attribution throughout the entire process, not merely at one stage.
Since both statements make claims that are the opposite of established research-ethics practice, the correct answer is that both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect.

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