When the Reader Will Not Directly Benefit from Granting the Favor

question 89

Multiple Choice

When the reader will not directly benefit from granting the favor you request, your persuasive message should

• A) adopt a less confident tone.
• B) use language appealing to the reader's emotions.
• C) show how someone other than you will benefit.
• D) stress the objective evidence justifying your request.
• E) use the first paragraph to tactfully make your request.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample data, that is likely to contain the true population parameter with a certain degree of confidence.

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Annual Salaries

The total amount of money that an individual earns in one year from their employment.

Plug-in Principle

A statistical method that involves estimating unknown parameters by directly substituting sample statistics (from collected data) into formulas in place of population parameters.