A Sound Deductive Argument Depends On

question 60

Multiple Choice

A sound deductive argument depends on:

• A) the premises being true based on personal experience.
• B) the premises being true and the argument having correct logical form.
• C) the premises being true, the argument having correct logical form, and the person making the argument agreeing with all the facts.
• D) a valid generalization from the individual pieces of evidence.

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Definitions:

Nonparametric Test

A type of statistical test that does not assume the data comes from a particular distribution.

Matched-Pairs Sample

A method where each subject is paired based on certain characteristics before being assigned to different treatments for comparison.

Frequency Distributions

Frequency distributions are summaries that show the number of occurrences of values within a dataset, often represented graphically in histograms or tables.

Spearman's Rank

A non-parametric measure of rank correlation that assesses how well the relationship between two variables can be described by a monotonic function.