Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) Regulate Quantitative Research but Not Qualitative

question 21

True/False

Institutional review boards (IRBs) regulate quantitative research but not qualitative research.

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Definitions:

Experimental Group

In an experiment, group of individuals who have a certain characteristic or receive a certain treatment as compared with a control group.

Inductive Reasoning

A method of reasoning in which general principles are inferred from specific observations.

Experimental Group

A group of subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the variable or intervention being tested, to assess its effect.

Independent Variable

Variable that is controlled by an experimenter in order to explore its relationship to a dependent variable.