On a daytime talk show, a television actress relates how she cured all three of her children's hyperactivity by using a special diet and exercise regime. She explains that interested parents can buy her book detailing this "cure" online starting today. As a critical thinker, evaluate this actress' claim of curing her children's hyperactivity

What will be an ideal response?

Answer will include that as a critical thinker, you should question this actress' claim to have cured her children's hyperactivity. First, you might ask if these children met the clinical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or whether they were overactive based on their age. Since younger children tend to be more active and have shorter attention spans, her children could have just outgrown their overactivity. Second, a true experiment would have to be performed using her "treatment," in which truly hyperactive children would be randomly assigned to an experimental group that would undergo her treatment and a control group that would not. Only by having a comparison group can her claim be validated. Third, individual cases, or in this case three, tell us nothing about what is true in general regarding her treatment for hyperactivity. Lastly, since the actress is selling a book about her method, one must be skeptical when considered any source that is possibly motivated by monetary gain.