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Experimental economics' inconsistent ban on deception
Authors:Gil Hersch
Institution:1. South Gloucestershire Council, Health and Wellbeing Division, Department for Children, Adults and Health, PO Box 298, Bristol, BS15 0DQ England, UK;2. Faculty of Health and Social Care, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1DD England, UK;1. Bioethics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;2. Consultant Patent Attorney, Ghent, Belgium
Abstract:According to what I call the ‘argument from public bads’, if a researcher deceived subjects in the past, there is a chance that subjects will discount the information that a subsequent researcher provides, thus compromising the validity of the subsequent researcher's experiment. While this argument is taken to justify an existing informal ban on explicit deception in experimental economics, it can also apply to implicit deception, yet implicit deception is not banned and is sometimes used in experimental economics. Thus, experimental economists are being inconsistent when they appeal to the argument from public bads to justify banning explicit deception but not implicit deception.
Keywords:Experimental economics  Deception  Public bad
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