If individuals are asked to rate the effectiveness of condoms in preventing the transmission of HIV (the virus that causes AIDS), they would be most likely to rate a condom as effective if they were told ________
a. that the condom has a 95 percent success rate in protecting against the HIV.
b. that only 5 condom users out of every 100 are not protected against the HIV.
c. that the condom has a 5 percent failure rate in protecting against the HIV.
d. It does not matter, because all of the other options describe the same statistical effectiveness.
Answer: a
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