What Is the Rationale for the Internal Control Principle, Segregation

question 90

Multiple Choice

What is the rationale for the internal control principle, segregation of duties?

• A)History has shown that employees are generally dishonest and thus cannot be entrusted with performing related duties.
• B)The work of one employee should, without duplication of effort, provide a reliable basis for evaluating the work of another employee.
• C)Control is most effective when only one person is responsible for a given task.
• D)Segregation of duties causes companies to hire more employees and thus it supports the economy.

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Definitions:

Experimenter Bias

The possibility that the experimenter’s knowledge of the condition a particular participant is in could affect her behavior toward the participant and thereby introduce a confounding variable to the independent variable manipulation.

Conceptual Replications

A method in scientific research where a study is conducted again with the same hypotheses but different methods or in different contexts to validate the original findings.

Random Assignment

A method used in experiments to assign participants to different groups in a way that each participant has an equal chance of being placed in any group.

Random Sample

A method of selecting a sample from a population in which every individual has an equal chance of being chosen.