A Contracting Company Recently Completed Its Period of Performance on a Government

question 1073

Multiple Choice

A contracting company recently completed its period of performance on a government contract and would like to destroy all information associated with contract performance. Which of the following is the best NEXT step for the company to take?

• A) Consult data disposition policies in the contract.
• B) Use a pulper or pulverizer for data destruction.
• C) Retain the data for a period no more than one year.
• D) Burn hard copies containing PII or PHI

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Definitions:

Two Groups

A research design involving comparison between two separate groups of participants to determine the effect of a variable.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

History Effect

refers to the impact that events occurring between the first and second measurements in an experiment have on the subjects' performance, independent of the experimental manipulation.

Regression Toward the Mean

A statistical phenomenon where extreme scores on a variable tend to be closer to the mean upon subsequent measurements.