Title. When I was in pre-k my parents enrolled me in a longitudinal study spanning 18+yrs. Long story short, I am now an RA in a lab (different research team/different PI from the OG project) and a separate lab passed on the data from that project. Should I disclose to the PI that I was a participant? Should I excuse myself from working with this data?
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Can you (or the PI) identify your data from the dataset? If so, they can remove your data from the dataset and you can note this in any reports/publications. I worked on a similar project where two researchers had answered a national survey, then ended up later analysing that survey data. They identified and removed their own data from the survey database.
It’s never possible to give a 100% certain answer about things like this, just because data access conditions can be quite variable. However, in principle this shouldn’t be an issue. I’d personally let your PI know, just for transparency but I really doubt there’s any issue here.
Tell your PI and let them decide. (If I was your PI I’d just have you work on other stuff)