Peer review - Research Methods

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This video includes:The role of peer review in the scientific process.

Created for the requirements of AQA A level psychology. However, information should be useful for students of other psychology courses.

0:00 Intro
0:40 The process of peer review
1:30 Why peer review is used
2:24 Evaluating peer review
4:37 Outro

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some up of vid:
peer review: experts in a particular field securitise your research, to determine whether or not it should be released to an academic journal -> aims -> fain funding, suggest improvements, determine whether or not research is valid/data is correct/ ethical etc. before it reaches the public
limitation
-> publishing bias -> publishers may disregard work, regardless of expects in the field from approving it (thats if isn't impactful or positive)
-> peer bias -> more critical (esp. as anonymous -> avoid that researcher getting funding over them) (or if data contradictive findings of experts, regardless of whether research is valid or not)
strength
-> anonymous -> more likely to be honest