Ethical decision making is when two different standards conflict with each other (Fisher, 2017). The philosophy of ethical decision-making influences our everyday lives by making us reevaluate our decisions to make sure we are choosing the ethical decision for that situation. An example of this in research is call the consent paradox. This is when deception is used in research and the participates are not fully aware of the experiment, so their consent is not ethical (Fisher, 2017). So, two different standards conflict, the issue of informed consent and the outcome of the experiment being true. When this arises then the ethical thing to do is evaluate if the outcome outweighs the informed consent. The participate must not be in any danger during the experiment for this to have any ethical ground. In the scientific setting, scientists must make sure their research questions are ethically, and the processes taken in their research follows the ethical code put into place. As a student I can ensure that I maintain academic honesty throughout my graduate academic career by not plagiarizing. Most students understand plagiarism but there is also self-plagiarism that is less noticeable to a student because it was our work that we are using. According to Bruton (2014), self-plagiarism is a concept that has been argued to be ethical and unethical. An example of self-plagiarism if when a student uses a paper they have already written in the past for a current assignment. It is the students own work, but it is not original to the assignment. This is the same for research. Using the same research for different studies is self-plagiarism because it is not original to the present research.