I plan on going out to recruit for my dissertation study tomorrow. It is difficult.
Here's why? Recruiting can be seen as leading to bias. Especially if I actually meet the people I will by studying. The Institutional Review Board at my university sees that as a bad idea, forcing their answers.
If I meet them, I can recruit them and make them more likely to complete the study. If I don't, I can keep out bias.
They won't answer emails without introduction, so my idea is to try to pass out a flyer to the church secretaries. It would be easier if I had large churches to work with, but I have already recruited the largest in the association I am attempting to study.
I could change my sample and population, but that leads to a change in the prospectus and proposal. Since I already have a third of the sample, I am not giving up at this time on my current subjects.
Ethics is good, but sometimes makes it impossible to run into people.
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