Experimental Research in Small Cities Suggests That Mandating Work for Welfare

question 3

Multiple Choice

Experimental research in small cities suggests that mandating work for welfare recipients increases their income. Therefore, we should mandate work requirements for all welfare recipients. This statement is an example of

• A) fallacy of inductive reasoning.
• B) ceteris paribus fallacy.
• C) fallacy of composition.
• D) post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy.

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Definitions:

Population Location

A term that typically refers to the central value or position of a statistical population.

One-sample T-test

A statistical test used to determine whether a sample mean significantly differs from a known or hypothesized population mean.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric method used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

A non-parametric method for testing whether samples originate from the same distribution.