Which of the following questions would be appropriate to ask when determining external criticism?
A) When was the document really created?
B) Is information in the source consistent with other accounts at that time?
C) What conditions might have influenced what was included in or omitted in a source?
D) Did the source's author directly witness what it contains or is it secondhand information?
A
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Given the set of schools shown below, find the following:
a. Find the unweighted mean center.
b. Find the weighted mean center.
c. Find the weighted standard distance for the schools.
d. Find the relative standard distance, assuming that the study area ranges from coor-
dinates (0,0) in the southwest to (6,6) in the northeast. Repeat assuming the north-
east is defined by the point (10,10).
A study falsely concluded that eating ice cream causes drowning because both increase during the summer months. In fact, the warmer weather leads people to go swimming more often, leading to more deaths due to drowning, and more people eat ice cream as the temperature rises. The correct explanation is called
a. Reverse causation b. Common cause c. Sample selection bias d. All of the above