Consent to Participate

Because this is a University research website, we ask that you scroll down and read about our research before you decide to click the “I Agree” button at the bottom of this page, and before you give your Consent to Participate, submit your answers to our questions, and sign in to be a part of the Remade Man Online Group.

The women on the Remade Man Research Team want your relationship stories to get a better idea of what women think makes a bad or “needs improvement” man. We are using blog entries to get stories from a broad range of people from all over the country. The study is being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Richard Kolotkin who is a Professor at the Minnesota State University Moorhead.

If you decide to participate, fear no deception and rest assured that all you are being asked to do is recall one of your “not so hot or worse” relationships and tell us about it. By providing consent you are giving us permission to post your anonymous story on our blog after we read it, and to allow the women in our online group to weigh in with their ideas about how your defective man needs to be remade. You are also agreeing to allow us to use your post to help us determine what it is that women want in a man and what women think makes a guy a loser.

Because we are not asking anyone who joins our group to provide their name, your contributions to our study remain completely anonymous. To insure this anonymity, we ask that you

• do not provide any identifying information when you tell your story
• use made up names to refer to yourself and your man
• avoid profanity, racism, sexism, and vicious personal attacks when you tell your story
• understand that any stories containing these kinds of things will not be posted to be remade by group members
• before you agree to participate we want you to know that, though most people tend to feel better after writing their stories, you may feel some unpleasant or painful emotions when you recall the details of your relationship and may want to use one of our resource links if you do.

While all stories we receive will always remain anonymous, it is also important that you are aware that the anonymous information we collect in our study may be used in future publications and that blogging software is not designed to guard against individuals reading posts -- it is specifically designed to present the information to as wide an audience as possible. What this means is that there is a chance that unauthorized third parties could view your post after you submit it. This is another reason to protect yourself by not providing any real identifying information.

The last thing that we would like you to know is that participants in our study may elect to subscribe to the Remade Man blog and become a member of our online group. Becoming a member is totally free and voluntary. If you decide to join us you will be entitled to weigh in on all kinds of men who need to be remade. Becoming a member is totally voluntary and is not required since you can tell your story even if you decide not to join us. But if you opt for membership after you tell you story we will send you an e-mail every time we post a new man to be remade, and you will be able to speak out to your heart’s content about what you think it would take to make these men more human. Joining us allows you to share your best relationship advice with everyone who reads Remademan.com, to agree or disagree with any advice which other members have posted, and to set some guy straight every time you hear from us.

Now for the research fine print. “All participation in this study is voluntary, refusal to take part in the study involves no penalty or loss of credits to which participants are otherwise entitled, and participants may withdraw from the study at any time without penalty.”

If you any questions about our study, or have some concern or complaint, please contact us according to the instructions on our website.

If after reading all of this you have decided to participate, please click the "I Agree" button below to affirm that you are at least 18 years of age, that you fully understand the nature of your participation, and that you freely consent to become a part of our study.