PT131.S3.Q25

PrepTest 131 - Section 3 - Question 25

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Summary

The author concludes that serious scientific papers are generally free of bias. Why? These papers are reviewed by many other scientists before publication, and any shared biases will likely be noticed and removed.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that all scientists don’t share the same biases. Since only biases that the reviewers don’t share will be removed, if all scientists share the same biases, then the published papers will contain these biases.

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25.

Which one of the following ██ ██ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████ █████████

a

The scientists reviewing ███████ ██████████ ██████ ███ ███████████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ █████ █████ ███████████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████ ███████

b

In general, biases ████ █████ ███████████████ ██ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██████ █████ ████████ ███ ███████████ ███ ███ ██████ █████ ███ ███████████

c

Biases that are ███████ ██ █████████ ██████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ███████████ █████████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ ██████ ███ ██████████ █████ ██ █████ ███████

d

The interpretation of ████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ██ █ ███████ ██████████ █████ ████ ██ █████████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████████

e

Slanted interpretations of ████ ██ █ ██████████ █████ ███ ██ ███████ ████ ███████ ███████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ███ ██ ███ █████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ██████

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