Learning Choose the correct purpose of having informed consent from research participants. The purpose of informed consent is O to ensure that the results of a study are presented fairly and that the data supports the conclusions. to protect the rights of all human participants in a study through appropriate communication. to allow researchers the opportunity to make changes during a study without informing the participants each time. to guarantee that participants in a double-blind experiment do not know if they receive a placebo. to analyze the validity of the data used in an observational study involving human or animal subjects.