Many Funding Sources Now Require That Agencies Provide Outcome Data

question 9

Essay

Many funding sources now require that agencies provide outcome data in order to continue receiving funding.Discuss some of the ethical issues that might come up in an agency that is required to prove the effectiveness of its various programs.
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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The likelihood distribution associated with a statistic derived from a random sample.

Standard Deviation

A gauge of how much the values in a collection scatter around the mean, reflecting the range of variation.

Sampling Distribution

The probabilistic distribution specific to a statistic, based on randomly collected data.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution that represents the frequency of various outcomes in a set of samples drawn from a larger population.