You are conducting a cross-cultural study comparing Canadians to an isolated tribe in Brazil. You have to pay Canadian participants to motivate them in the study, but the Brazilian tribe has no concept of money. Instead, you give them candy, which they seem to really like. What answer below is most accurate about what you just did?

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This question asks us to evaluate the ethical and methodological implications of compensating participants in a cross-cultural study in two very different contexts.
Option 1: 'Without living with the Brazilian tribe, you won't know whether this is a reasonable decision or not.' While direct immersion can improve understanding, this statement overstates the necessity of living with the group to judge the decision. We can reason about methodological equivalence from theory and prior knowledge about compensation across cultures, so this option is not the strongest claim.
Option 2: 'It was a poor decision to give the Brazilian tribe candy because the study now lacks methodological equivalence.' This option highlights a core issue: using candy as compensation in a culture with no money could create different incentives, meanings, and expectations compared to Canadians who are paid with money. This threatens cross-cultural equivalence of procedures, which is central to maintaining fair comparisons in cross-cultural research. It correctly identifies a threat to internal validity and comparability.
Option 3: 'It is impossible to know if it was a reasonable decision or not without implicit cultural knowledge.' While implicit knowledge can inform judgment, researchers can still assess methodological equivalence using explicit cultural models, prior literature on compensation, and ethical guidelines. Claiming impossibility is overly absolute and not the most precise assessment in this context.
Option 4: 'It is only a reasonable decision if the Brazilian tribe is maximally divergent from Canadian participants.' This reverses the logic: maximal divergence does not justify differing compensation; it would likely worsen comparability. The degree of cultural difference is not a sole determinant of appropriateness for maintaining equivalence.
Option 5: 'It was a reasonable decision to give the Brazilian tribe candy because the study maintains methodological equivalence.' This contradicts the core issue: candy is not equivalent to money in a context where money is the standard incentive, so the claim that equivalence is maintained is unfounded.
Across the options, the strongest critique centers on the risk to methodological equivalence when compensation differs in form between otherwise parallel procedures. The candy payment for the Brazilian tribe introduces a confounding variable that can alter motivation, perceived coercion, and data comparability, making Option 2 the most accurate critique. However, the remaining options attempt to sidestep or misstate how equivalence works, and each contains conceptual or methodological flaws. The key takeaway is that incentive forms matter for cross-cultural equivalence and should be carefully aligned or justified with clear cross-cultural equivalents.

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