According to Samuel Gross and His Colleagues, ______Of the 340

question 38

Multiple Choice

According to Samuel Gross and his colleagues, ______of the 340 identified exonerations during a fifteen-year period served terms of ten years or more.

• A) less than half
• B) one-tenth
• C) one-third
• D) more than half

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Definitions:

Presidential Election

An electoral process in which citizens vote to elect an individual to serve as the head of the government or the state.

Availability Heuristic

A strategy in which one estimates the frequency or probability of an event by the ease with which mental operations, such as retrieval of examples and construction of examples, can be carried out.

Frequency

In general terms, it refers to how often something occurs within a specific interval or context, such as the number of repetitions of a wave per second in physics.

Expected Utility Theory

A normative model of decision making in which the decision maker weighs the personal importance and probabilities of different outcomes in choosing among alternatives in order to maximize overall satisfaction of personal goals.