A Family Preservation Program Director Helps Design a Study That

question 31

Multiple Choice

A family preservation program director helps design a study that evaluates the effectiveness of her program to keep children living with their abusive parents by providing the families with daily home visits by social workers. She expects the evaluation to show a dramatic reduction in reported child abuse incidents. Instead, the results show an increase in reported child abuse incidents. The director then concludes that the program was undoubtedly effective, reasoning that there really could not possibly have been an increase in actual abuse due to her program, just an increase in reportage of abuse due to closer monitoring in the daily home visits. The director is committing the error of​

• A) ​illogical reasoning.
• B) ​ex post facto hypothesizing.
• C) ​premature closure of inquiry.
• D) ​selective observation.
• E) ​mystification.

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Definitions:

Rock Fall

A rock fall refers to the rapid descent of rock from a steep cliff or mountainside, often triggered by natural processes like weathering or human activities.

Earth Flow

A type of mass wasting event where soil and regolith move slowly downslope, often triggered by saturation from rainfall or melting snow.

Creep

The slow, continuous movement of material, such as soil and other weak materials, down a slope.

Prehistoric Slope Failures

Landslides and similar geologic occurrences that took place before recorded history, often detected through sediment analysis.