Recently,students in a Marketing Research Class Were Interested in the Driving

question 38

Multiple Choice

Recently,students in a marketing research class were interested in the driving behavior of students. Specifically,the marketing students were interested in finding out if exceeding the speed limit was related to social activity. They collected the following responses from 100 randomly selected students: The degrees of freedom for the analysis are ________.

• A)1
• B)2
• C)3

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Definitions:

Overconfidence Phenomenon

A cognitive bias where a person's subjective confidence in their judgments is reliably greater than their objective accuracy.

Preconceptions

Ideas or opinions formed before having the evidence for their truth or usefulness, often acting as biases or assumptions.

Framing

In social psychology, the way information is presented to the audience, which influences the choices people make by highlighting certain aspects and downplaying others.

Belief Perseverance

The tendency to maintain a belief even after the evidence supporting it has been discredited or refuted.