If Individuals Are Asked to Rate the Effectiveness of Condoms

question 57

Multiple Choice

If individuals are asked to rate the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the transmission of HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) , they would be most likely to rate a condom as effective if they were told:

• A) that the condom has a 95 percent success rate in protecting against the HIV.
• B) that only 5 condom users out of every 100 are not protected against the HIV.
• C) that the condom has a 5 percent failure rate in protecting against the HIV.
• D) It does not matter, because all of the options above describe the same statistical effectiveness.

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