The Foremost Ethical Issue Addressed by Institutional Review Boards Is

question 55

Multiple Choice

The foremost ethical issue addressed by institutional review boards is _____.

• A)voluntary participation
• B)emotional harm done to subjects
• C)whether funding was received from an appropriate source
• D)does the research deal with special populations

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A span of values calculated from sample statistics, which is likely to embody the value of a hidden population parameter.

Mean

A measure of central tendency which is calculated by adding up all the values in a data set and then dividing by the number of values.

Population Standard Error

The standard deviation of the distribution of a sample mean over multiple samples from the same population.