Explain why the failure to replicate a result is not sufficient evidence for fraud.
What will be an ideal response?
Failure to replicate a result could be due to statistical error, not fraud. Any measure consists of a true score and a possible error that causes variability in that measure. An error is any influence in the response of a participant that can cause variability in his or her response. Therefore, the error that causes variability, and not fraud, could explain why a result was not replicated.
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