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QuizMultiple Choice

Experimental Design Principles

Question 2 • FL-2003010-M/J Physical Science

Shah did not trust the results of an experiment that she had read about, so she is conducting the experiment herself. She goes through the same set of steps and measures the effect of the amount of sugar on a single organism.Which best describes what Shah is doing?

Answer
A
replication
B
repetition
C
both repetition and replication
D
neither repetition nor replication

Explanation

Shah is independently carrying out the experiment described by someone else, using the same steps. Repeating another researcher’s experiment to check whether its results hold is replication. Repetition usually means running the same experiment again within the same study or by the same researcher.

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