Psychology professor: Applied statistics should

Answer choices

1. A

   Irrelevant Relationship2% picked this

   The response gives no evidence for its presumption that students willing to take a course in one department would choose

   Whether students would be willing to take the course in several departments is not relevant to whether students are best served by taking the course within their own department.

   2%
2. B

   Irrelevant Relationship6% picked this

   The response gives no evidence for its presumption that social science students should have the same competence in

   No comparison is made between the level of competence in statistics social science students should have relative to mathematics students.

   6%
3. C

   Correct81% picked this

   The response does not effectively address a key reason given in support of the

   Why this is right

   This correctly describes the issue in the mathematics professor's response to the psychology professor.

   Skill tested: Flaw · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   81%
4. D

   Wrong Flaw1% picked this

   The response depends for its plausibility on a personal attack made against

   This describes an ad hominem attack. The mathematics professor, however, does not personally attack anyone.

   1%
5. E

   Reversal11% picked this

   The response takes for granted that unless the course textbook is the same the course content will

   While the mathematics professor does assume that using the same textbook implies that the course content is the same, but this answer reverses that relationship.

   11%