D Question 1 5 pts As part of his work for NASA. De Murdock was asked to find ou

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D Question 1 5 pts As part of his work for NASA. De Murdock was asked to find out what percentage of people in the coatinental united States saw Haley's Comet when it was last visible. He randomly selected three major cities, Seattle, Cleveland, and Boston, and polled 1000 randomly selected people from these cities. He finds that fewer than 5% of the people he interviewed saw the comet, so he concludes that fewer than 5% of people in the continental United States saw the comet Is Murdock using a generalization or an analogy? Generalization Analogy D Question 2 5 pts In the NASA example what is the target population? Who is the sample? HTML Editor Paragraph

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Answer : Generalisation

Statistical generalisation is the process in which the researcher randomly selects a limited number of observations and from this he extends conclusion towards the entire population, as in this case.

Question 2:

In the NASA experiment, the target population is the people in the continent of United States , to know the number of people who had witnessed the Haley's comet.

Sample population: sample population is 1000 random people from three selected cities Seattle, Cleveland and Boston.

Question 3:

The base rate fallacy will be the fallacy over here, where the size of the base population has been ignored. The answer would be

Option B and option C : Weak and biased

Question 6:

In this question 80% of gun owners said that they opposed to gun control laws. And since 80% were opposed, they concluded that most of the gun owners opposed gun control laws. Hence, they extended an analogy, unlike a generalisation in the NASA example.

Option B: analogy

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