I have begun using Google to check random phrases in each term paper for matches and have found an astonishing number of students using their skills to craft plagiarized assignments; by many accounts, the practice is on the rise.
To borrow a metaphor from the philosopher of science Ronald Giere, theories are like maps: the test of a map lies not in arbitrarily checking random points but in whether people find it useful to get somewhere.
A second reviewer checked a random sample of articles independently.
I have had several incidents recently where my passport was checked, at random, during border crossings within the Schengen area.
Spotting accuracy was checked with random 9mere (Operon Biotechnologies, Inc).
Homoscedasticity was checked by random distribution of the residuals.
Plausibility checks of incoming data are performed routinely; raw data are checked in random samples.
We checked for random mating at individual loci within sexual populations and estimated marker linkage in Arlequin v3.11 [ 44].
We checked a random subsample of relevance ratios for topic-pairs and found no systematic trends or bias.
In addition, we manually checked a random sample of geocoded addresses for accuracy by using ESRI ArcGIS© software StreetMap data [ 23].
