What Is a Red Herring

question 33

Multiple Choice

What is a red herring?

• A)Claiming the truth of the very matter in question,as if it were already an obvious conclusion.
• B)Appeals to a common belief of some people,often prejudicial,and states everyone holds this belief.
• C)Stating that someone's argument is wrong solely because of something about the person rather than about the argument itself.
• D)Any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue,particularly by relating the issue to a common fear.
• E)A weak argument set up to easily refute and distract attention from stronger arguments.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the spread of a set of values in a population, giving insight into the variability within the entire population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or elements selected from a population to be included in a sample.

Upper Limit

The highest value in a range or set of data, often referring to the maximum point in an interval or boundary in statistical analysis.

Standard Deviation

An indicator that determines how spread out a dataset is from its mean, obtained by taking the square root of the variance.