What Suggestion Presented in Your Textbook for Using Statistics Is

question 48

Multiple Choice

What suggestion presented in your textbook for using statistics is followed in the following speech excerpt?
Iit seems as iyou spend a lot otime going back and forth from your job, it's probably because you do. According to figures compiled by management consultant JefDavidson, the average American commutes 157,600 miles to and from work during his or her working life. That's equal to driving six times around the earth.

• A) Use statistics to quantify ideas.
• B) Identify the source of statistics.
• C) Relate statistics to the audience.
• D) all of the above
• E) b and c only

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A decision-making heuristic in which our estimates of frequency or probability of events are based on how easy it is to find examples.

Framing Effect

The influence of wording, or the context in which information is presented, on decision making.

Overconfidence

A cognitive bias where an individual’s subjective confidence in their judgments is greater than their objective accuracy.

Chomsky's Hypothesis

A theory suggesting that the ability to learn language is innate, i.e., biologically programmed within humans.