A Careless Act by a Person That Causes Harm to Another

question 26

Multiple Choice

A careless act by a person that causes harm to another person to whom a duty of care is owed is most likely to be the tort of:

• A)trespass to person.
• B)battery.
• C)assault.
• D)negligence.

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Definitions:

Inferential Statistics

A branch of statistics focused on drawing conclusions about populations based on samples.

Power

In statistics, the probability that a test will correctly reject a false null hypothesis; essentially, the test's sensitivity to detect an effect when there is one.

Likelihood Of Error

The probability or chance that a statistical conclusion may be incorrect or misleading.

Mean

An average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the values by the number of values.