Additional Information   Case 04. Misuse of Data   Dr. Elizabeth
Johnson is a sociologist who heads a public policy institute
within a large state university. The institute wins the state
contract to evaluate new state welfare initiatives. The contract
stipulates that the social scientists associated with the
institute, who make up the evaluation team, will be able to use
the data for their own research in addition to using it as the
basis for specific state mandated evaluation studies. The
initial evaluation studies of the state experiment in welfare
reform show no reduction in the number of welfare recipients and
suggest some unexpected and dysfunctional aspects of specific
aspects of the experiment. In response to these findings the
director of the state Department of Health and Human Services
writes a letter to the public policy institute nullifying the
evaluation contract and directing Johnson to return the data to
the state within two weeks. Johnson protests to the Chancellor
of his institution who dire