Name that fellow CTY classmate
Friends, Cousins, and Relativists
Logic for Dummies
TSS
Research Ethics
100

This student has been playing the violin for (about) 8 years and the student's favorite sport is soccer.

Who is Sheel?

100

This term means that the truth of certain statements depends on the subject.

What is subjective relativism?

100

This is a name for a sentence (or set of sentences) that provide support for the conclusion.

What is a premise (or What are premises)?

100

This is the disease that the Tuskegee study focused on.

What is syphilis?

100

This declaration is the World Medical Association’s best-known policy statement. It has also undergone many revisions, the first of which was in 1964.

What is the Declaration of Helsinki?

200

This student celebrated a birthday in January.  In fact, her birthday was the first day after our first synchronous meeting.

Who is Veda?

200

This term means that some moral statements are true independent of one’s mind.

What is moral objectivism?

200

An argument where if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true as well has this property.

What is validity?

200

This is the social worker and epidemiologist who tirelessly worked to bring the study to an end.

Who is Peter Buxton?

200

An RCT in which a placebo is tested against a new drug.

What is a PCT? (or, What is a Placebo-controlled trial?)

300

This student used to swim but now does volleyball.  Additionally, she used to play the clarinet.

Who is Mira?

300

This statement means that moral statements are true without any exceptions.

What is moral absolutism?

300

Another name for an argument that has only true premises and is valid.

What is soundness?

300

This physician and former director of the Public Health Service’s division of venereal disease advised that the Rosenwald fund set up a syphilis control program for Blacks in the South.

Who is Taliaferro Clark?

300

This is the first condition that the Nuremberg code requires that research participants give for any experiment involving humans as subjects.

What is informed consent?

400

This student's name in Greek means wisdom and her first philosophical thought was how people were particularly tiny compared to big things (e.g., universes).

Who is Sophie?

400

A marriage practice that Eskimos believed in.

What is polygamy?

400

This is a valid argument that has the following form:

1. If P then Q.

2. P

3. Therefore, Q.

What is Modus Ponens?

400

This is the year that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study officially began.

What is 1932?

400

This is the name of a principle that requires that members of a control group be given whatever is the current standard of care for the condition being studied.

What is the principle of standard care?

500

This student resides in the same state as Mr. Barclay.

Who is Ella?

500

A practice that the Callatians followed when one of their ancestors died.

What is eating their dead?

500

In the lecture video on Principles of Logical Reasoning, this is the name of the argument in which Priyanka Chopra was discussed.

What is an invalid argument with true premises?

500

This is the reporter of the Washington Star who broke the news of the study, which led to public outcry and ultimately an end to the study.

Who is Jean Heller?

500

According to the Belmont Report, these three fundamental ethical principles must be respected when research involving human participants is conducted.

What are (i) Respect for persons; (ii) beneficence; and (iii) justice?