Pseudo-replication and Bioethics

Question 1

Why is replication important?

Answer 1

allows between-individual replication and noise from confounding factors to be accounted for

Question 2

What are independent replicates?

Answer 2

replicates that are independent of each other

Question 3

What is a Pseudoreplicate

Answer 3

a replicate that is not entirely independent

Question 4

How can pseudo replication be commonly detected? (4)

Answer 4

can a measure be predicted based on the measurement of another replicate

are all samples from the same shared enclosure?

are cohort members related (genetically or evolutionary) ?

is there a hidden stimuli than can account for the same observation?

Question 5

Bioethics defintion

Answer 5

ethics (philosophical discipline: good - bad, right - wrong) within field of medicine & healthcare

Question 6

What is the Utilitarianism approach to bioethics?

Answer 6

moral right/wrong of an action should be ascertain in terms of the actions consequences

Question 7

What is the Kantianism approach to bioethics?

Answer 7

An action is only right if it is universalizable (would be accepted universally)

Question 8

What is the Principlism approach to Bioethics?

Answer 8

use the framework of the four universal and basic ethical principles to solve bioethical problems

Question 9

What are the 4 universal principles of principlism

Answer 9

Autonomy (listen to patient)

Beneficence (do good)

Nonmalefience (do no harm)

Justice (act fairly)