According to ________,Our Confidence That a Particular Cause Is Responsible

question 11

Multiple Choice

According to ________,our confidence that a particular cause is responsible for a given outcome is reduced if there are other plausible causes that might have produced it.

• A) plausibility theory
• B) the principle of refutation
• C) the discounting principle
• D) the augmentation principle

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Definitions:

Sample Size

The number of individual observations or data points used in a statistical sample.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, indicating how far each data point in the set is from the mean.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean, reflecting how spread out the data is.

Standard Deviation

A measure that indicates the extent of deviation for a group as a whole from the mean.