hard · LSAT Logical Reasoning
The journal's embargo policy is justified only if early publicity would undermine peer review. The embargo prevents early publicity and thereby protects anonymous review. Early publicity would undermine peer review whenever reviewers could infer the authors' identities. In this field, the dataset itself reveals the laboratory. Therefore, the embargo policy is justified.
Which one of the following, if assumed, enables the conclusion to be properly drawn?
- A dataset that reveals a laboratory always contains confidential patient information.
- Anonymous reviewers generally prefer journals that use embargo policies.
- Any policy that protects anonymous peer review is justified.
- The journal applies its embargo policy only in fields using identifiable datasets.
- If the dataset reveals the laboratory, reviewers can infer the authors' identities.
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