Case Study: Nelson Nice - Research Integrity and Compliance Review Office

A) Yes. He plagiarized Nelson Nice's report.

B) No. Although his actions may be considered unethical this would likely be thought of as authorship dispute rather than research misconduct.

A) Spilling coffee on a lab notebook and re-entering the data from your team member's notebook

B) Changing a decimal point on a piece of outlying data to strengthen the statistical significance of a finding

C) Filling in answers to complete a survey as you believe the survey respondent overlooked the last page

D) Supplying your research project notes to a research team member who has been out ill

E) Both B) and C)

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