Return to Article Details Undertaking Sensitive Research: Issues and Strategies for Meeting the Safety Needs of All Participants Undertaking Sensitive Research: Issues and Strategies for Meeting the Safety Needs of All Participants Confirmation bias. There are so many pitfalls that you're likely to land in one of them and get into trouble. Traditionally, risk assessments in research have been limited to examining the risks to the research participants. Research often wants facts instead of opinions. After evaluation, we describe them in terms such as very high, high, moderate, low, very low. Evaluators use the emic perspective, and qualitative data collection techniques, to understand the how and why around a project. International Journal of Research & Method in Education: Vol. Such a bias can occur if a participant is opinionated about the sponsor of the research or gets influenced by the sponsor’s reputation or mission statement. Subjects have the rights to be protected against injury or illegal invasions of their privacy and to preservation of their personal dignity. G. Potential Research Risks or Discomforts to Participants. Qualitative risk analysis is a descriptive measure and relies upon the judgment skills of project managers to determine the impact and probability of risk, in this case, health and safety risks. [CDATA[// >