Again, I direct you to the education debates, where we "grade" each others' work all the time, checking and analyzing, probing for logical fallacies, mis-presentation of data, mis-reading of other peoples' writing, honesty of logic, etc etc etc.
Six skills are described: open questions, echoing, checking and formulating meaning, probing, stepping back and closed statements and questions.
She tried this with several sticks and even a piece of grass, checking and licking the probe after each poke, researchers report online in Primates.
These include using open and closed questions, probing, eye-contact, echoing, checking and formulating meaning.
Before the participant departed the researcher checked all answers and probed any responses requiring clarification.
Purity of the fractions was checked by probing the blots for vinculin and TOM40 as markers for the cytosolic and mitochondrial compartments, respectively.
Although interviews are more time-consuming and expensive, they generally produce higher quality data than self-complete questionnaires because they allow the interviewer to check data and probe for information that people might not have considered relevant.
Equivalent loading of protein was checked by probing with an antibody against Na/K-ATPase α1 (1 500 dilution; Santa Cruz Biotechnology).
Fractionation quality was checked by probing blots with antibodies recognizing proteins known to be localized to mitochondria (Bcl-2) or the cytosol (vinculin).
And the checks and probes that come with military confidence-building also take place in other areas: the OSCE declares elections to be fair or foul, the Council of Europe lays down rules about human rights, the IMF and World Bank poke their noses into national accounts.
