If I Told You That "80% of All People Abducted

question 41

Multiple Choice

If I told you that "80% of all people abducted by space aliens are supporting themselves as criminals," I am guilty of

• A) using contradictory premises.
• B) knowing the unknowable.
• C) creating a false dichotomy.
• D) covariation ignorance.
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Discrete Probability Distributions

Probability distributions that characterize the outcomes of experiments with discrete outcomes, specifying the probability of each outcome.

Binomial Probabilities

The probabilities of obtaining a given number of successes in a fixed number of binary trials.

Normal Random Variable

A normal random variable is a variable whose values are subject to fluctuations according to a normal distribution.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the dispersion or variability in a dataset, indicating how much individual data points deviate from the mean.