AMA Quiz
AMA Quiz
AMA Quiz
Select one:
a. Critically analyzed
b. Random
c. At best condition
d. The one you're familiar with in a population
To ensure that a sample is representative of the population, sampling should be or is preferred to be
Select one:
a. Critically analyzed
b. Random
c. At best condition
d. The one you're familiar with in a population
To ensure that a sample is representative of the population, sampling should be or is preferred to be
Select one:
a. Critically analyzed
b. Random
c. At best condition
d. The one you're familiar with in a population
To ensure that a sample is representative of the population, sampling should be or is preferred to be
Select one:
a. Critically analyzed
b. Random
c. At best condition
d. The one you're familiar with in a population
Admission bias is
Select one:
a. When the sample of the population being observed died
b. When the population studied does not reflect the general population
c. When a subject is falsely classified as something else.
d. When not every subject is given the equal opportunity to be included in the study
Admission bias is Select one:
a. When the sample of the population being observed died
b. When the population studied does not reflect the general population
c. When a subject is falsely classified as something else.
d. When not every subject is given the equal opportunity to be included in the study
According to the reading material that if deviation is still present the author should:
Select one:
a. They should change the topic of their research
b. Repeat the whole study until it has zero errors
c. Confess it in their articles by declaring the known limitations of their work
d. They should change the data and manipulate it to correct the errors
Having only research with positive result and not accepting of those with negative results would be a
form of what bias?
Select one:
a. Bias in Data Interpretation
b. Bias in Data analysis
c. Publication Bias
d. Bias in Data Collection
It is a form of bias that occurs when the study is supported by the company that would help the interest
of the same company but instead of conducting a correct form of experiment the conclusion of the
study was changed or manipulated.
Select one:
a. Selection Bias
b. Funding Bias
c. Survivor Bias
d. Volunteer Bias
Selection bias is
Select one:
a. Wrongly classifying a sample as part of the study when it shouldn't be.
b. Filtering the sample in the population to make sure that some part of the population will not be
represented
c. When the conclusion of the research is changed just to be centered in the interest of the company
supporting it.
d. When the people who are part of the study are those only interested to be part of the study and
would have a big difference to those who don't
Reporting non-existing data, eliminating data, and using inappropriate statistical tests are all part of
what?
Select one:
b. Publication Bias
It is any trend or deviation from the truth in data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and
Select one:
a. Bias
b. Data Interpretation
d. Data collection
It is a kind of bias which occurs when something is poorly defined, no gold standard for diagnosis of the
disease, or when a disease might not be easily detectable for example a disease.
Select one:
a. Misclassification Bias
b. Selection Bias
c. Admission Bias
d. Survivor Bias
Select one:
d. The problem faced by the scientific research community in response to the conflict of interest with
Select one:
b. In note taking there is an increased risk of the researcher being more subjective
c. Writing down the observations is not largely the job of the researcher
According to the survey conducted by the Union of the Concerned Scientists in 2005 half the scientists at
Select one:
a. Private corporations did affect the withdrawal or reversal of scientific research conclusions
b. corporate funding is crucial for the research community
c. That private funding have sped up the sharing of research results between different institutes
d. Privately funded researches are easily accessed by other researchers
According to Steven Nissen, a cardiologist in Cleveland Clinic, pharmaceutical industry's has a growing
influence over what?
Select one:
a. Medical research
b. Medical schools
c. Environmental Research
d. Biological science
Bayh-Dole act which is passed in 1980, is the
Select one:
a. Law passed that protects the environment from harmful activities of private corporations
b. Act granting universities and their professors automatic rights to own and commercialize federally
funded research
c. The role of the government to address the issue between the environment and different industries.
d. law which states that the government has no right to own any research conducted by the university
researchers when it is privately funded
According to the module, the amount of research in 2006 funded by private industries
Select one:
a. Increased
b. Nothing happened
c. Is the same as it was in 1965
d. Decreased
The following is seen crucial for any research organization except for
Select one:
a. Openness to debate and criticism
b. Having time for ideas to grow to maturity
c. Having hospitality toward novelty
d. Having the right private funding for researches
Transparency and objectivity of researchers can be affected by personal or financial interests. Directly or
indirectly. Research can be directly affected by the interests of the person conducting it if the person has
a direct benefit from a company such as stock ownership, grants, and patents. And indirectly if
Select one:
a. If the research is funded just heighten the demand of a certain product
b. If the product will provide some benefits to the expert/researcher.
c. The person will be given recognition, paid expert testimony, and support from sponsored
organizations of the company
d. If the person was employed before by the company who funds the research
What is external responsibilities of a researcher?
Select one:
a. It's a responsibility of the scientist to everything outside of his or her own
b. It is the role of the of the scientist to stick to the standards of the scientific community
c. The role of a scientist to take into account the health of his body
d. Refers to the role of the scientist or researcher not only to the scientific community but also to the
community outside of the laboratory.
It is also given in the module that scientist should have set both of its internal and external
responsibilities. How is internal responsibilities defined?
Select one:
a. It is the role of the of the scientist to stick to the standards of the scientific community
b. Refers to the role of the scientist or researcher to the scientific community but also to the community
outside of the laboratory.
c. It's a responsibility of the scientist to everything outside of his or her own
d. The role of a scientist to take into account the health of his body
Assignment 006
According to the article, cognitive self-esteem after using google gives people a sense of thinking that
google has become part of their cognitive tool set. This means that:
Select one:
a. They feel like they are smarter while they tend to rely on google
b. They boasted off something which was never really a part of them
c. People has been more confident with themselves
d. They finally get the sense of pride about their know
The Stroop Task that they have given their subjects showed that:
Select one:
a. That people tend to think more about things on the internet compared to brands.
b. People tend to think more of food when they ask to name the color of something
c. People tend to associate hunger with knowledge
d. People tend to only answer easier questions when asked because they can easily remember its
answer.
In the experiment where a different group of people were told to copy 40 memorable factoids
wheresome of them were told that their work will be saved in a computer and some were told that there
work
will not be saved, which of the following was a conclusion they derived from the experiment.
Select one:
a. The group that was told that the work will be saved where very good at remembering the facts given.
b. The group that was told that their work will not be saved had a hard time remembering what they
have worked on.
c. The group that was told that their work will be saved had remember their work with the same rate as
those who are told that their work will not be saved.
d. The group that was told that their work will be saved is much worse at remembering compared to the
group of people who are told that their work will not be saved.
According to the article, which of the following is one of the best reason why humans rely more on the
internet than another human beings when they are in search of answers.
Select one:
a. Because unlike another humans, the internet contains large volumes of facts.
b. Because the internet offers a better set of information than a regular person
c. Because people doesn't like interaction with other people anymore.
d. Because unlike humans internet are generally easier to access nowadays and can answer faster and
more accurate than another person.
On the last part of the of the article the authors had concluded that
Select one:
a. People in the future will be smarter than the people of today
b. The study needs more research to be able to understand how the mind works.
c. The internet may lead to a great improvement in the future where it will be a part of our memory
without risking our identity.
d. Google will soon be capable of controlling the behavior of a person using it having him as highly
reliant to it.
This is the tendency to distribute information where we consider a human mind as a storage of
information.
Select one:
a. Transactive Memory System
b. Google Effect
c. Mental Distribution System
d. Short-term Memory Reliance
It is the intentional or reckless alteration or reckless hindering with the functioning of a computer or
computer network by imputing, transmitting, damaging, deleting, altering or suppressing computer data
or program.
Select one:
a. System Interference
b. Illegal Access
c. Data Interference
d. Illegal Interception
It is the emergence of new scientific or technological ideas that may be part of a random exogenous
process.
Select one:
a. Invention
b. Innovation
c. Technology
d. Idea Alteration
There are two activities involve in technical progress which is process innovation and which of the
following?
Select one:
a. Product application
b. Product Innovation
c. Process application
d. Product Invention
It refers to the freedom of the right of having access to every data on the internet.
Select one:
a. Internet Regulation
b. Internet Protection Act
c. Net neutrality
d. Cyberlaw
It is the product of laboratory scientist where it entails the conception of basic ideas
Select one:
a. Innovation
b. Invention
c. Idea Alteration
d. Technology
Assignment 007
Nanotechnology came from the Greek word "nanos" which means what?
Select one:
a. Small animals
b. Small objects
c. Small Person
d. Small circles
According to the article between the two manners of building materials which is more promising?
Select one:
a. Top-bottom approach
b. Down-top approach
c. Bottom-up approach
d. Top-down approach
It is a method of building nanomaterials by starting with individual atoms and bringing them together to
form a product
Select one:
a. Top-down approach
b. Top-bottom approach
c. Bottom-up approach
d. Down-top approach
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that requires federal agencies participating in National
Nanotechnology Initiative to what?
Select one:
a. Take part in knowing the opinions of people about nanotechnology
b. Develop a plan for environmental and safety research
c. Use nanotechnology to improve space travel.
d. Take further action in the improvement of nanotechnology research
Which of the following is one of the major challenges with nanotechnology given by the article?
Select one:
a. Religious group of people that is against nanotechnologny
b. Laws that doesn't support nanotechnology
c. Lack of researchers for this form of technology
d. Creating large quantities of nanoscale materials is still time-consuming and expensive
Which of the following is one of the reasons why nanotechnology faces challenges when it comes to
funding.
Select one:
a. The government lacks support to it because it's not part of their interests
b. It is not supported by science itself for being too costly limiting its practicality.
c. It risk on health, safety, and environment
d. Nanotechnology needs a lot of money to develop that's why it's hard to find investors
The advancement of nanotechnology causes which of the following in the field of business?
Select one:
a. Incapability to follow the rules of the government
b. Lack of trust from the public
c. Less accessibility for smaller companies
d. Improvement on the role of nanotechnology to the people
According to the module intellectual property rights may become an issue as commercialization
progresses and nanotechnology matures because?
Select one:
a. In the age as nanotechnology matures it somehow produce many competitors out in the market
making it less possible to start up new patents.
b. People had always been very intact with their businesses that it would be hard for new businesses
with new patents to occur.
c. There are no laws that protects products made from or by nanotechnology which makes it hard to
patent future products
d. There is already a very wide range of patent claims, and the possible formation of patent thickets,
which could contribute to barriers to entry for companies.
The following are key findings on the impact of nanotechnology in business except which off the
following?
Select one:
a. Local companies see themselves predominantly as users of nanotechnology, rather than developers
of it
b. Businesses have concerns more about the unknown health and safety side-effects of nanotechnology
c. Business nowadays largely rely on nanotechnology and would need to come up with new form of
technology to fit in the futures of businesses
d. Government has a clear role of supporting nanotechnology according to companies
What does the review article "Opportunities and Challenges of Nanotechnology in the Green Economy"
analyze?
Select one:
a. It examines the production of new technologies for a green economy
b. It shows a discussions on the laws that nanotechnology may oppose upon its development
c. It shows the lack of support to nanotechnology because of the government's policies and low funding
on it.
d. It analyze the opportunities and challenges that nanotechnology have in building a greener economy.
The following are the primary modes of internet regulations except for:
Select one:
a. Laws
b. Bandwidth
c. Architecture
d. Markets