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Mary Rodale studied discrimination against women plumbers. She hypothesized that individuals who believe strongly in traditional sex roles would be more discriminatory than individuals who showed strong non-traditional sex roles. She contacted 100 individual home owners who planned to hire a plumber. She offered each subject six possible plumbers to choose from. The plumbers had varying levels of experience and training and charged different rates. One of the six was a woman and the other five were men. Every single home owner who believed strongly in traditional sex roles chose a male. All those who believed in non-traditional sex roles ignored gender and chose on the basis of skill and price alone.
-The Lord of the Rings movies are a trilogy because there are three movies to the series. This statement makes what kind of error of causality?

Definitions:

Right-Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or extends further than the tail on the left side, indicating that the median is less than the mean.

Standard Deviation

A metric that calculates the spread or variability of a dataset in comparison to its average, showing the extent to which the data points deviate.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution of data that forms a symmetric bell curve, indicating that the data follows a normal distribution pattern.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values deviate from the mean.