Res Ipsa Loquitur Allows a Judge or Jury to Infer

question 33

True/False

Res ipsa loquitur allows a judge or jury to infer that the defendant's negligence was, more likely than not, the cause of the plaintiff's harm.

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Controlled procedures carried out to investigate the effects of a variable by systematically manipulating it and observing the outcome.

Phrenologists

Practitioners of phrenology, a now-discredited theory that linked the shape of an individual's skull with their personality traits and mental abilities.

Theory Of Phrenology

A now-discredited theory that proposed the shape and size of the skull could determine a person's character and mental abilities.

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A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.