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The robustness of peer review as an institution lies precisely
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The robustness of peer review as an institution lies precisely in its capacity to compensate for individual researchers' ________ to confirmation bias - an occupational hazard in any field where investigators are emotionally invested in their hypotheses.
| Two Answers |
|---|
| A. resistance |
| B. vulnerability |
| C. susceptibility | D. aversion | E. indifference |
| F. propensity |
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Re: The robustness of peer review as an institution lies precisely
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20 May 2026, 09:14
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Both vulnerability and susceptibility naturally pair with “to confirmation bias.”
The sentence describes researchers being prone to a cognitive bias because they are emotionally invested in their hypotheses.
The other choices don’t fit the meaning or idiomatically:
-resistance and aversion imply protection against bias.
-indifference is unrelated.
-propensity usually takes “for,” not “to”.
Answer: B,C
Both vulnerability and susceptibility naturally pair with “to confirmation bias.”
The sentence describes researchers being prone to a cognitive bias because they are emotionally invested in their hypotheses.
The other choices don’t fit the meaning or idiomatically:
-resistance and aversion imply protection against bias.
-indifference is unrelated.
-propensity usually takes “for,” not “to”.
Answer: B,C
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