Chunk #89 — PART II. CORE QUESTIONS — F. What is the Content of those Responsibilities? Four Issues and Who Should Address Them — Step 2: Analyzing a particular finding
information or eliminate utility entirely. When researchers encounter IFs or IRRs, it is often the case that theoretically this same finding could be produced in a clinical setting. This is especially true of IFs, which are, by definition, not the object of study. If the hypothetical availability of this information in a clinical context obviated the duty to return, there would be little if any duty to return any finding. It is precisely because in reality the researcher has a piece of information that may be new to the individual that the duty to return even arises.
