The case: a full irb committee meeting is convened on october 18, 2009. one agenda item is a new research proposal to evaluate how mothers interact with their learning disabled child. the inclusion criteria require the children to be a minimum of five years of age. the protocol requires the mother of the child to look at the child without any expression and not to talk to the child for three minutes. the irb determined that the risks in the research would be greater than minimal.

Defer the proposal to the next meeting because of a loss of quorum
Loss of quorum refers to a situation when there is not enough members of essential body that needed to conduct the meeting.
In most cases, loss of quorum happens either because of unfulfilled invitations or walk outs.

Bob: coke is baby pandas.jim: what? how do you figure that coke is baby pandas? bob: because this book says so.jim: how do we know the book is correct? bob: because it says that coke is baby pandas.jim: how does that prove the book's accuracy? bob: because it's statement involving coke and baby pandas is correct, therefore it is accurate.jim: how do we know that it's correct? bob: because we have concluded that the book is accurate, and therefore the statement is correct.therefore, coke is baby pandas.