Consider the Following Argument

question 33

Multiple Choice

Consider the following argument:
Major premise: If Islam is incompatible with democracy, then Islamic countries are more likely to be dictatorships than democracies.
Minor premise: Islamic countries today are more likely to be dictatorships than democracies.
Conclusion: Therefore, Islam is incompatible with democracy.
-Is this argument valid or invalid?

• A) valid
• B) invalid

---

Definitions:

Tested

Refers to the process of evaluating or examining something to determine its properties, quality, or functionality.

T Value

A statistic calculated in a t-test that measures the size of the difference relative to the variation in the data.

Group 1

The first group or category in a study or classification scheme.

Variance

Variance measures the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean, quantifying how much the numbers in the set differ from each other.