After Seeing a Friend of Yours Being Uncharacteristically Quiet, You

question 66

True/False

After seeing a friend of yours being uncharacteristically quiet, you decide that your friend must be depressed. You later find out that your friend is not depressed but sleepy from staying up all night working on a term paper. You made this error because you failed to distinguish between observation and inference.

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