Karim Is a Law Student, Who Reads an Advertisement for a Sleep-Learning

question 209

Multiple Choice

Karim is a law student, who reads an advertisement for a sleep-learning device that claims to have helped a law student pass the state bar exam. Karim should

• A)immediately order this device because the correlation is evidence of the device causing the law student to pass the bar.
• B)immediately order this device because a correct inference can be made from this observation.
• C)order the device because systematic research has shown that these devices really work.
• D)not order the device because an individual case tells nothing about what is true in general.

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