Professor Ambra Was Skeptical About the Accuracy of Recently Reported

question 641

Multiple Choice

Professor Ambra was skeptical about the accuracy of recently reported research on sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the reliability of these findings?

• A)naturalistic observation
• B)replication
• C)random sampling
• D)the case study

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