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Cost-benefit approach
Cost-benefit approach refers to an approach to analyzing the ethics of a research study, based on weighing the costs of the research, like the subjects’ time, stress to subjects, and others against the benefits of the research like gaining knowledge about human sexuality or sexual behaviors, etc.
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