If You Observe That Kelly Clarkson Won American Idol 3

question 112

Multiple Choice

If you observe that Kelly Clarkson won American Idol 3 years before Carrie Underwood won, and you conclude that Kelly Clarkson winning caused Carrie Underwood to win 3 years later, you would be guilty of an error called the

• A) fallacy of inductive reasoning.
• B) fallacy of ceteris paribus.
• C) fallacy of logic.
• D) post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy.

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Definitions:

Absorptive State

Immediately after a meal when nutrients are being absorbed from the intestine into the circulatory system.

Protein

Large biomolecules consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid residues, essential for the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs.

Glucose

A primary sugar vital for energy in living organisms and a constituent of multiple carbohydrate types.

Deamination

The removal of an amino group from an amino acid or other compound, often a metabolic process producing ammonia.