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Tazate

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Many people get important health information from magazines and newspapers. One major problem with this is that when research is presented in the popular media, the press may ____.
 
  a. distort the meaning
  b. give undue praise to the researchers who conducted the study
  c. present it in such a way that is not understandable to the general public
  d. bring public awareness to certain issues

Question 2

Trudy is writing a report for her Human Sexuality course on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In preparing for her report, she runs across a study in which people were surveyed about their beliefs on the failure rate of condoms.
 
  According to this study, most people believed that even when used correctly, condoms prevented sexually transmitted infections only 50  of the time. Trudy argues that condoms are not that effective based on this study. What type of error has Trudy made in evaluating the results of the study?
 
  a. ad hominem c. ad hoc
  b. ad populum d. ad provost



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fwbard

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B




Tazate

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Reply 2 on: Jun 18, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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