The Quality of a Discussion Often Depends on How Closely

question 45

Short Answer

The quality of a discussion often depends on how closely the parties attend to the same issue.For the passage below,determine whether the speakers are clearly disputing the same issue,or whether somebody is missing the point.
a:Have you seen those advertisements for striptease dancers for private parties? That's exploitative and insulting,if you ask me.
b:Oh,take it easy.They have male strippers for women's parties as well as female strippers for men's parties.So it's not as bad as you thought.

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Definitions:

SSR

Sum of Squares due to Regression, indicating the proportion of variance in the dependent variable explained by the independent variables in a regression model.

SST

Sum of Squares Total, a measure in statistics that quantifies the total variance within a dataset.

Multiple Coefficient

A term used in multiple regression analysis that indicates the strength and direction of a relationship between variables.

Determination

The measure of how well a set of data points fit a statistical model.