Which of the Following Scenarios Exemplifies the Keeping of Confidentiality

question 52

Multiple Choice

Which of the following scenarios exemplifies the keeping of confidentiality?

• A)A researcher destroys her data five years after her study is completed
• B)A researcher redacts the names of participants from interview transcripts before donating them to a public library
• C)A researcher quantifies participants’individual survey responses and publishes the statistical means of her sample’s responses to each survey question
• D)A researcher assigns a random number to each interviewee and uses these numbers,rather than participants’names,to label interview recordings
• E)A researcher convenes a focus group and asks the participants to share no more than their first names with one another

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Definitions:

P-values

P-values provide the probability of obtaining an effect at least as extreme as the one in your sample data, assuming the truth of the null hypothesis.

Standard Error

A statistic that measures the average distance that a sample statistic, such as the mean, deviates from the actual population mean.

Alternative Hypothesis

A statement that contradicts the null hypothesis and is tested directly in a hypothesis testing framework, assuming the null hypothesis is false.

T Procedure

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups when the variances are unknown and assumed to be equal.