Peer review

Question 1

What is peer review

Answer 1

Expert in the field is selected
Expert reads paper on study
Expert reviews paper and determines whether it can be published or if it needs changes or if it rejected

Question 2

What is the purpose of peer review

Answer 2

Helps allocate research funding
Validates quality/relevance and accuracy of research
Allows for improvement

Question 3

Advantages of peer review

Answer 3

Helps establish validity to prevent criticism

Reviewer remains anonymous to make review honest (reviewer may be inexperienced)

Question 4

Disadvantages of peer review

Answer 4

Journalists may ignore research that isn’t attention grabbing and publish/pay attention to interesting, conflicting research(publication bias)

Reviewers may wrongly criticise rival research