If Your Audience Will Be Skeptical of or Resistant to Your

question 147

Multiple Choice

If your audience will be skeptical of or resistant to your message

• A)state your main idea and then present your evidence.
• B)start with the evidence and build your case before presenting your main idea.
• C)start by asking rhetorical questions to arouse the audience's interest in your message.
• D)open your message with a humorous anecdote to establish rapport with the audience.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value in a set of numbers, which separates the higher half from the lower half of the dataset.

Mean

The mean value, determined by dividing the total sum of numbers in a series by the quantity of numbers in that series.

Median

The middle value in a sorted list of numbers, or the average of the two middle numbers when the list has an even number of entries.

Standard Deviation

An approach to quantifying how much a group of numbers disperses or varies from each other.