Frankie Tells Johnny, "I Can't Believe You Want to Legalize

question 31

Multiple Choice

Frankie tells Johnny, "I can't believe you want to legalize marijuana. Drug overdoses kill thousands of people each year." Which fallacy has Frankie committed?

• A) Equivocation
• B) Appeal to tradition
• C) Appeal to the crowd
• D) Bifurcation

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Definitions:

Random Assignment

is a process used in experimental designs to allocate participants to different groups in a study by chance, minimizing pre-existing differences among those groups.

Pretest-Posttest Nonequivalent Groups Design

A quasi-experimental design involving two groups that are not randomly assigned, with both groups measured both before (pretest) and after (posttest) a treatment or intervention.

Posttest-Only Nonequivalent Groups Design

An experimental design in which different groups are compared only after the treatment or intervention, without a pretest comparison.

Pretreatment Differences

Variations among participants in a study that exist before the intervention or treatment is applied.