A Major Purpose of Peer Review Is To

question 171

Multiple Choice

A major purpose of peer review is to:

• A) verify the credentials of the researchers who worked on a project.
• B) make sure the results of a study fit with current scientific theories.
• C) determine whether the work lives up to accepted scientific standards.
• D) make sure that the research does not involve animals as subjects.

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Definitions:

Defective Items

Products or goods that fail to meet quality standards.

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a chosen statistic, produced from a sample taken at random.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the set deviate from the mean.

Sampling Distribution

The chance distribution of a specified statistic obtained from a random sample, employed for making deductions about the overall population.