Which of the following is an important consideration that people in all organizations too often fail to remember when new ideas are implemented? Social scientists should evaluate each program to determine if it is having its intended effect and if it is not, alternative programs should be tried. Scientists should have strong ethical principles and be committed to treating those who participate in research investigations with respect and dignity. Legislators who control the budgets of research-granting agencies of the government have demanded that research be directly relevant to specific social issues. Both basic and applied research are important, and neither can be considered superior to the other.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?