Why Is Selective Reporting Unethical

question 23

Multiple Choice

Why is selective reporting unethical?

• A)It gives credit to researchers who were not actually involved in running a study.
• B)It causes the research literature to be biased.
• C)It hides harm to participants from the IRB.
• D)It fails to give other researchers enough information to replicate a study.

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