According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with human subjects?
A. A researcher receives anonymized data for secondary analysis from a survey about gender-related differences in stress levels conducted by a colleague at another university.
B. A university designs an in-house study to improve the mentoring of women students in its engineering department with the proposed outcome consisting of a report of recommendations for the department.
C. An experiment is proposed on the relationship between gender-related stereotypes in math and the subsequent performance by males and females on math tests.
D. An organization for women academics in engineering asks a federal agency to provide the number of women investigators funded by that agency to include in a report for its membership.
Answer: C.