Are JC and secondary school students not getting proper guidance on the Project Work or what???? Today some jc kids emailed the ENTIRE freakin sociology department their interview questions. How fucking indescriminate is that???? To make things worse, the so-called interview questions were practically their research questions, not even proper interview questions. In other words, if any one of us answered the questions (and they asked us to do so with "sufficient elaboration"), we would have actually done the entire project for them. What do we get in return? They would be "immensely grateful". How sweet.
Another group from our -ahem- "ivy league" boys' schools came to conduct a face-to-face interview with my colleague. Didn't even introduce themselves nor their research project, just that it's "...something about class and stratification", and promptly conducted the interview with a video camera. When asked why they needed the v-cam, they said: "for recording purposes". Like helloooo... that's like "why do you want to buy a drink from the shop?" Ans: "Because I want to drink." KNN! In the end, they admitted that it was actually for a documentary, NOT for mere "recording purposes". Didn't even bother asking for permission. In the end my colleague demanded they erase the recording and not use his interview in their research.
Where's the fucking research ethics? My God! What the heck are the schools teaching???? the syllabus is disturbingly inadequate and slipshod. They're going out there to do project work but without any fucking clue what they're doing! I sincerely hope that these are just isolated cases. But judging from the numerous emails we've been receiving in the past few months, i seriously don't it.
