Describe three stages of the scientific process that are vulnerable to bias. Describe an example for each.

What will be an ideal response?


Examples will vary. Identifying the research question: gender differences in social roles may prompt researchers to focus more on how mothers balance work and family obligations without asking the same of fathers. Designing studying data: androcentrism may prompt researchers to make generalizations to all people from samples consisting entirely of men. Interpreting and communicating the results: maximalist approaches may prompt researchers to overly emphasize sex differences that actually consist of small effect sizes and largely overlapping distributions.

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A. England. B. Italy. C. Spain. D. Russia. E. Austria.

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A) Formosa B) Korea C) Beijing D) Nanjing (Nanking) E) Shanghai

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A) Josip Broz Tito B) Slobodan Miloševi? C) Michel Foucault D) Jacques Derrida

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