Research on Experiences of Students with Asperger's

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If its an approved study a quick phone call would be able to check it out. As for Alex - him saying something does not guarantee safety, especially if you want to go down this paranoid path. After all you don't know him as far as I gather, he may as well just be another person on the internet.

Alex is the owner of this website, and not just an administrator. Bianca has made the claim that Alex has approved of her post - a claim that remains unsubstantiated. I merely advise caution and discretion until her claim is confirmed by Alex.

For all we know, the person answering the phone at the university could be Bianca herself, or a friend of hers.

Think about it: If you're being asked to provide details regarding past experiences - including education and employment history - as well as your real name through an essentially anonymous on-line contact, wouldn't you be justified in being cautious (in the least) or somewhat paranoid (at the most) regarding Social Engineering and other methods of identity theft?

Besides, as the old saying goes, "Just because you're paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get you."

Let's wait for Alex's response.

You might also notice that her post is, erm, still here.

Not if you have half a brain and google the Princeton Psychology Departments phone number. Clearly you don't know how the academic system works.

Seems like an hell of an elaborate scheme for someone to concoct and for what purpose?

Hi all,

It appears that my attempt to recruit participants for my research has become a bit of an issue, and I understand your concerns. I also had my own concerns in placing a post as I felt that it might be a bit intrusive and which is why I felt it was necessary to contact Alex and have his permission to post on this website. Once I contacted him and received his approval I felt that this would not be an issue. Unfortunately, my attempts to get Alex to confirm his approval by posting on here (which he already gave) have not been answered. I am supposed to speak with Alex sometime soon, so maybe at that point we can discuss how to clear up this issue. Until then, I ask for your patience as I attempt to address this issue. In the next few days I will have a similar description of the study placed on another Apserger's site which is monitored much more carefully than this one, and I will provide the link to that website once it has been added to potentially calm some of the fears. If this is truly a problem, then I will be happy to remove the post from this website.

My apologies,
Bianca

That would be sufficient, Bianca. A phone call to the IRB requesting verification that it exists would put an end to a lot of the paranoia.

My IRB protocol number is 4168, and I apologize for not placing it in the original post.

Fnord, I understand your concern (actually, I was the first to post doubts about this situation) but as I have since posted, some Internet stalking reveals this to be legit. Ms. Love possesses a valid Princeton University e-mail account (and it's not a Yahoo account; how do you get a university e-mail account without being a student there?) and has a Facebook page that is sufficient to verify her identity, as several details of it are far too elaborate to be fabricated for the purpose of scamming Aspies. Also, we now have her IRB number, which should provide sufficient validation.

You said earlier that it wouldn't.

I'm out.

So you noticed that too, eh?

"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice.

She said earlier that our names would not be attached to our responses in any way, and this is standard procedure for research projects of this nature- it's confidential in the sense that no one will be able to find anything out about us by looking at the research results, and all information about us, as Bianca already said, will be securely stored and then deleted once the study is completed. All in line with standard IRB procedures. Call her university if you still have doubts.

I will call Princeton and give you the results shortly, so that the entire world does not hop on the phone to check up on her (Princeton would not be happy with that). Standby, please, until I have the results. I called their Institutional Review Board Office and asked for verification by Bianca's name, IRB, and research project focus. It was a voicemail, so hopefully I will have a response shortly and will post it for you.

Until then, please try to be calm.

But Nan, how do we know you aren't just a troll account that Bianca (if that is her real name) has established here in advance to lend credibility to her with a fake IRB phone call?

hahahahahahahahahahah. You're good, Orwell. You're good.

Gee, I guess you could go in and look at all of the eight-kazillion posts I've put on this board in the last several years and then try to see how to fit those in with a very-young-person's alter-ego?

That's what they *want* us to think, Nan.

Honestly, if everyone on this thread took the MMPI, half of us would probably come up as paranoid schizophrenics.

Ok, folks. Calmeth Thyselves.

I have just spoken to a gentleman from Princeton's IR Board and he assures me that her study is valid, legit, and above board.

Good luck with it, Bianca, and sorry for the paranoia. You have to understand that a lot of us have been scammed in the past, and are just a tad gun-shy....

Now, of course, they have to assume that I'm not her in disguise.
(Would happily trade all these wrinkles and gray hair, but no.)

She'd really spend nearly three years (looking at how old Nan's account is) trying to get the seventy odd bucks in my bank account? Wow. With that much effort, she deserves it.

I was just offended by the whole "you're going to be anonymous... oh wait... NO YOU'RE NOT!" thing. I never thought this was a scam. A bad idea, yes. At a place like Princeton, you don't need to go online to find a person with an ASD. Assuming you do shows a lack of knowledge on the subject.