This V word is the quality of being based on truth or reason.
This research seems to give _______________ to the theory that the drug might cause cancer.
validity
3 words: an extra amount of something, such as time or money, that you allow because there might be a mistake in your calculations:
The Japanese government estimates that its borrowing requirement this year could be higher than previous years subject to a wide ______ ____ ___________.
margin of error
1 word: a system or way of doing something.
The ______________ and findings of the research team have been criticised.
methodology
1 word: the average or usual performance
Europe's varied cultural, political and ethical _________.
norm
1 word: the part of philosophy that studies what it means to exist
ontology
2 words: a study where a group of individuals is interviewed at intervals over a period of time
The key feature of __________ _________ is that they collect repeated measures from the same sample at different points in time.
panel studies
2 words: the process of someone reading, checking, and giving an opinion about something written by another expert working in the same subject area
All these papers have been published after being subjected to__________ __________.
peer review
1 word: the use of reason in understanding such things as the nature of the real world and existence, the use and limits of knowledge, and the principles of moral judgment:
Live now, pay later - that's my ____________ of life!
philosophy
1 word: all of the people in the target group under investigation.
Our results are restricted only to females and may not extrapolate to male ______________.
population
1 word: the belief that knowledge comes from things that can be experienced with the senses or proved by logic.
positivism