Answer:
- To give further credence, or otherwise to the findings from the other companies.
- To ensure findings from the other companies are not limited to a specific variant of the population
- To check if there are other variables that were not considered by the other companies.
Explanation:
First of all, a part of the question is missing. Below is the complete question
Read the passage about the health risks of single-load liquid laundry packets.
These packets are filled with concentrated, toxic chemicals. A 7-month-old in Florida died from swallowing the soap. Several soap and detergent companies are conducting studies to address these safety concerns; they want to reduce toxicity and to make the packets look less like candy. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is also performing studies to build more safety into these products.
Why would the CPSC perform studies when other soap and detergent companies have already conducted research on the same products?
What CPSC is called replication. Replication is an important attribute of a good research. It has to do with the reproducibility of outcomes from the same research carried out by different researchers using different subjects. The CPSC's need to perform studies on the same product might be out of the following:
- To give further credence, or otherwise to the findings from the other companies.
- To ensure findings from the other companies are not limited to a specific variant of the population
- To check if there are other variables that were not considered by the other companies.
