What Does an Institutional Review Board Do

question 4

Multiple Choice

What does an Institutional Review Board do?

• A) It provides lists of people who are willing to serve as volunteers in psychological experiments.
• B) It maintains statistics on the number and type of experiments conducted at an institution.
• C) It helps experimenters evaluate the statistical significance of their data.
• D) It judges whether proposed experiments are ethical.

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Definitions:

Graphical Device

A tool or mechanism used to create, design, or display data and information in a visual format.

Relative Frequency

The ratio of the number of times a particular value or event occurs to the total number of occurrences, used to estimate probabilities in samples.

Hours Worked

The total number of hours spent working by an individual or group in a specific period.

Statistics Students

Individuals engaged in the study of statistics, which includes the collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.