It Is Difficult to Design an Experiment That Assesses Risk

question 18

Multiple Choice

It is difficult to design an experiment that assesses risk because of

• A)time constraints.
• B)high costs.
• C)ethical issues.
• D)all of the above
• E)a and b only

---

Definitions:

Legal Duty

An obligation imposed by law where an individual is required to adhere to a standard of reasonable care while performing any acts that could harm others.

Superseding Cause

refers to an unforeseeable event that interrupts the chain of causation and becomes the primary reason for an injury, thereby relieving the defendant from liability in a negligence claim.

Causal Chain

A sequence of events where each event is the result of the preceding one and causes the next.

Unforeseeable Event

An event that cannot be anticipated or predicted with reasonable accuracy.