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Inductive Arguments Quiz III
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What is the strength of the argument in the following statements?

1
I'm scared to let Susan see me in this sweater. A couple of my other friends told me it makes me look like a child, and she's at least as critical as they are.
A)Weak
B)Strong
2
We approached women in malls, college campuses, office buildings, and airports, until we had interviewed a thousand. Sixty-two percent told us they don't feel disadvantaged by being women. Even accounting for the error margin, that gives a clear majority who feel this way.
A)Weak
B)Strong
3
You have to speak Sanskrit before you can say you know it. Would you believe someone who claimed to know Spanish or Russian and never spoke it? Sanskrit is a language just as they are.
A)Weak
B)Strong
4
A large proportion of people who read like to read something religious. Every day on the subway I count how many people are reading in my car; and a little over half of them have a Bible open in front of them, or the Koran, or some other religious publication.
A)Weak
B)Strong
5
A watch could not assemble itself, because it's too complex. The universe is at least as complex as a watch. So the universe could not have assembled itself either.
A)Weak
B)Strong
6
Senator Torriano walked down the street in Detroit asking people what they consider the most pressing issue in America. The first two said, "High taxes." When the third also complained about taxes, the Senator knew how to vote.
A)Weak
B)Strong
7
I'm painting our rooms green. When you go out into a field your eyes feel relaxed; that shows your eyes will feel relaxed in a green room, too.
A)Weak
B)Strong
8
Since the mid-1960s, most nominations to the Supreme Court have been clearly ideological, and the Senate approved or rejected them on ideological grounds. The President has to make a new nomination now, so we're probably in for a fight.
A)Weak
B)Strong
9
Overheard: "Sparrows have little heads and they're not very smart. Dolphins and elephants have big heads, and so do people, and they're smart. So pigeons must be smarter than sparrows."
A)Weak
B)Strong
10
Baseball is drama. You see new people each time in a new conflict; you never know what they'll do or how it will turn out; there's suspense.
A)Weak
B)Strong
11
New evidence that Americans want drastic reform of Social Security. A random telephone poll of 250 people asked, "Are you in favor of preserving Social Security from economic collapse through a reduction of benefits?" Fifty-four percent said yes.
A)Weak
B)Strong
12
How can you say that people act out of self-interest? Didn't you read the story about the airplane that skidded off the runway into the ocean? One man kept passing the life preservers to other people so they would live instead of him.
A)Weak
B)Strong







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