A pharmaceutical company is producing a new drug, and conducts an experiment. a) During the developmental phase, the company collects data on how the drug works. Should you trust the conclusions? Why or why not? (b) Afterwords, the company sends marketers out with results of the experiment to talk to different doctors. Should you trust the conclusions? Why or why not? (c) Consider your answers in the first two parts. Can both parts use the same data for your answers to be accurate? Why or why not?

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A pharmaceutical company is producing a new drug, and conducts an experiment.

a) During the developmental phase, the company collects data on how the drug works. Should you trust the conclusions? Why or why not?

(b) Afterwords, the company sends marketers out with results of the experiment to talk to different doctors. Should you trust the conclusions? Why or why not?

(c) Consider your answers in the first two parts. Can both parts use the same data for your answers to be accurate? Why or why not?

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