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Match the steps of the process to julia's analysis. 1. analyze choices. current costs for making phone calls to foreign countries averages between five and ten cents a minute. 2. determine the goals. julia needs to reduce the cost of telecommunications without reducing her employees' ability to do their jobs. 3. gather data. the corporate computer network will be able to handle the increased traffic that will occur as a result of voip. 4. evaluate the decision. julia will have her it department set up voip in the smallest domestic office. 5. make the decision. julia will have employees document the benefits and problems that result from using the new technology.

Which of the following methods could be considered a “best practice” in terms of informing respondents how their answers to an on-line survey about personal information will be protected? respondents are informed that investigators will try to keep their participation confidential; however, confidentiality cannot be assured. respondents are informed that a research assistant will transfer all the research data to a password-protected computer that is not connected to the internet, via a usb flashdrive. the computer is located in a research team member’s office. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain her institution’s method for guaranteeing absolute confidentiality of research data. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain how respondent data will be transmitted from the website to his encrypted database without ever recording respondents’ ip addresses, but explains that on the internet confidentiality cannot be absolutely guaranteed.

1. technician a says horsepower information can be used by consumers to compare the power of different automobile engines. technician b says that manufacturers will often list the horsepower output of their engines in the online service information. who is right?