[avs733]

see my other comment to the GP. pulling the wool suggests agency and intentionality that isn't necessarily present when you have disciplinary differences like you describe. Simple miscommunication, e.g., using totally normal field terminology that does not translate well, is different.

[corty]

It is your job as a researcher to make the committee fully understand all the implications of what you are doing. If you fail in that, you failed in your duties. The committee will also tell you this, as well as any ethical guideline. Given that level of responsibility, it isn't easy to ascribe this to negligence on the part of the researchers, intent is far more likely.

[bluGill]

No, it is your job as a researcher to make sure you never even bother to submit to the IRB something that might fail review.

Sometimes you might need to make the committee understand before a full review when you are asking where a line is for some tricky part, but you ask about those parts long before you have enough of the study designed to actually put it before the review.

Ethics are a personal responsibility. You should be personally embarrassed if you ever have something fail review, and probably should have your tenure removed as well since if your ethics are so bad as to put before the board something that fails you will also do something even worse without any review.

[avs733]

It is absolutely my job, but I don’t necessarily have actionable information that I created a misunderstanding.

I submit unclear thing

Thing is approved

Thing must have been clear right?

[davidkuhta]

'Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.' - Alfred North Whitehead