Nearly twenty years ago Sheinfeld and Lord (1981) noted that “empirical studies of the ethical concernes of evaluation researchers are few” (p.380). what was true then is only slightly less true today. Indeed, at a recent session devoted to “what should we be researching in evaluation ethics?” (Morris, 1997) at the American evaluation association (AEAs) annual meeting, the panelists outnumbered the audience! Whatever else ethical issues may be, they do not appear to have attracted the attention of a large segment of the research community in evaluation.