A student is reading about a scientific claim in a newspaper article. The article includes a table of data that supports the claim.To best assess whether the claim is valid, which is one question she should ask?

To assess whether a scientific claim is valid, she should check the quality and reliability of the evidence supporting it. Asking where the data came from helps her judge whether it was collected by a trustworthy source and in a sound way. The reason for displaying it as a table, its personal relevance, or how long the claim took to develop does not directly establish whether the data supports the claim.

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