A Successful Comparative Inference Will Satisfy Five Criteria, the One

question 8

Multiple Choice

A successful comparative inference will satisfy five criteria, the one called productivity refers to is the ________.

• A) measure of the relative absence of complexity of the comparison
• B) extent to which a comparison captures a greater number of central or essential features
• C) degree of knowledge the listener has about the object to which the unknown is being compared
• D) capacity to project consequences that have the potential to be shown to be false, inapplicable, or unacceptable
• E) capacity to suggest consequences that go beyond those mentioned in the initial comparison

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Definitions:

Tukey's

A statistical method, commonly Tukey's range test or Tukey's Honest Significant Difference (HSD) test, used to find means that are significantly different from each other.

LSD

Lysergic acid diethylamide, a potent psychoactive drug, or in a statistical context, it might refer to the Least Significant Difference test for comparing means.

Randomized Block Design

A statistical experimental design that aims to reduce confounding variables by grouping similar experimental units into blocks before randomly assigning treatments within each block.

Sum of Squares for Blocks

Sum of Squares for Blocks is a measure used in analysis of variance (ANOVA) to assess the variance within groups or blocks of a factor in an experimental design.