"We're conducting a scientific study on mood for the next three months. Would you mind participating? The study won't require you to do anything special or take any further action. Y/N?"
There we go kids, easy as pie; it's called consent to participate! Pretty easy to do without spilling the beans on the study.
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Simple fix:
"We're conducting a scientific study on mood for the next three months. Would you mind participating? The study won't require you to do anything special or take any further action. Y/N?"
There we go kids, easy as pie; it's called consent to participate! Pretty easy to do without spilling the beans on the study.
This is a wider issue, but how do they prevent knowledge of the experiment adversely affecting the results?