Claude, a Baptist Teenager, Reads a Flawed Study Showing That

question 49

Multiple Choice

Claude, a Baptist teenager, reads a flawed study showing that Baptists are smarter than most people. Then he reads a second study with similar flaws proposing that Baptists are poor leaders. What would you predict will happen?

• A)He would overlook the flaws in the first study and dismiss the findings of the second study.
• B)He would now believe that Baptists are poor leaders.
• C)He would now believe that Baptists are both smarter and poor leaders.
• D)He would dismiss the findings of the first study and overlook the flaws in the second study.

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