MrsBlair Concludes That Boys Do Not Read as Well as Girls

question 275

Multiple Choice

Mrs.Blair concludes that boys do not read as well as girls because most of the students in her remedial reading classes are boys.Mrs.Blair's conclusion best illustrates the danger of

• A) random assignment.
• B) generalizing from select cases.
• C) confusing correlation with causation.
• D) random sampling.

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