Given the Cooperativity of Science, Which of the Following Is

question 25

Multiple Choice

Given the cooperativity of science, which of the following is most likely to result in an investigator being intellectually looked down upon by other scientists?

• A) Making money as the result of studies in which a new medication is discovered.
• B) Doing meticulous experiments that show data that contradict what has been previously reported by the scientific community.
• C) Spending most of a lifetime investigating a small and seemingly unimportant organism.
• D) Getting negative results from the same set of experiments.
• E) Being found to have falsified or created data to better fit a hypothesis.

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Definitions:

Stakeholder Agreement

An agreement or consensus among all key stakeholders on the project's goals, objectives, scope, and major deliverables.

Project Complexity

The degree to which a project is complicated in terms of organization, uncertainty, and the number of elements involved.

Emotional Investment

The degree of emotional engagement and commitment stakeholders or team members have in the success of a project.

Typology

The study and classification of types or categories, often used to organize concepts or objects based on shared characteristics.