According to the Supreme Court in the Daubert decision, what are the five factors trial courts should assess to determine scientific validity of a scientific theory or technique?

What will be an ideal response?


The Daubert Court suggested that the trial court consider various factors in assessing scientific validity: (1) Has the theory been tested? (2) Has the theory been subjected to peer review by other scientists? (3) What is the theory's or technique's known or potential rate of error? (4) Do standards controlling the application of the theory or technique exist? (5) Is the theory or technique generally accepted?

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What will be an ideal response?

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_________________ refers to the process where problems and behaviors have a medical definition that is influential in how we conceptualize and respond to the problem or behavior.

a) Medicalization b) Construction c) Objectivism d) Deconstruction

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During the ___________ era the police were decentralized under the authority of the municipality in which they worked

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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From 1794 to 1795, the French government conducted more than legal executions

a. 1,700 b. 17,000 c. 700 d. 170,000

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