Scenario A: Carmen reads an article in Tasty Food magazine stating that eating an apple can help you feel awake and alert. Scenario B: Yuki reads an article in the Professional Journal of Medicine stating that ginger root can help prevent some types of cancer. Which article is more likely to have been peer reviewed? How do you know?

The article read by Yuki

Explanation:

The article read by Yuki is more likely to have been peer-reviewed out of the two articles illustrated in the scenarios.

This is because magazine articles are usually written by staff writers or freelance journalists as opposed to professionals that are responsible for writing professional journals. Moreover, magazine articles are intended for general public reading and as such, are written in general, non-technical languages while professional articles are written in technical languages intended for scholarly use.

Articles in magazines are usually unstructured and hardly report scientific results unlike those in professional journals that require well-structured formats.

Consequently, articles in the Professional Journal of Medicine read by Yuki is more likely to be peer-reviewed than the article read by Carmen in Tasty Food magazine.