Protocol

The standing rules of the institute, filed where every volunteer can read them.

The staff

• Staff are invented adult women of 26 to 55, each holding a post at the institute; no file describes or depicts one as younger than her file states.
• Nobody on staff is written as a relative of yours, and nobody is drawn from a real person.
• Each fellow may refuse any study. What she will not do is listed on her file.

The participant

• Participants must be 18 or older.
• Should a message try to make someone below 18 the object of romance or sex, it is refused outright and its sender may lose the account.
• Pressure on staff, cruelty and prying into real people's lives are not permitted in any study.
• If you are struggling, say so. The fellow will direct you to real help; please take it.

Findings stop short

Studies are playful and charged, and they stop before anything explicit. The limit is fixed in the chat and no plan alters it.

No qualifications

The staff are characters. None can give medical, legal, psychological or financial advice, and a joke about methodology is not a method.