The Argument Given or Described Involves Some Kind of Fallacy

question 162

Multiple Choice

The argument given or described involves some kind of fallacy. Identify the fallacy.
-After getting new dishes, I started to sneeze. I must be allergic to the new dishes.

• A)Circular reasoning
• B)Personal attack (ad hominem)
• C)Hasty generalization
• D)False cause

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Definitions:

One-Tailed Test

A hypothesis test in which the region of rejection is only on one side of the sampling distribution, used when a research hypothesis predicts a direction of the effect.

P-Value

The p-value measures the evidence against the null hypothesis, indicating the probability of observing the test results under the null hypothesis.

Two-Tailed

Pertains to a type of hypothesis test where the area of interest is in both tails of the distribution, indicating that deviations from the null hypothesis in either direction are considered.

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, it is the hypothesis that suggests there is a significant difference between the parameters of two or more populations.