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How can someone be misled by coincidence?

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Mill's (modified) Method of Difference says that the relevant factor present when a phenomenon occurs and absent when the phenomenon does not occur…


A) Is irrelevant
B) Must be the cause
C) Makes no difference
D) Cannot be the cause

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Given the ordinary laws of statistics, incredible coincidences are…


A) Always evidence of causal connections
B) Evidence of the paranormal
C) Impossible
D) Common and must occur

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The Method of Concomitant Variation says that when two events are correlated-when one varies in close connection with the other-they are probably…


A) Causally related
B) Related in a post hoc fashion
C) Uncaused
D) Coincidentally related

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A modified version of Mill's Method of Agreement says that if two or more occurrences of a phenomenon have only one relevant factor in common, …


A) The occurrence is acausal
B) The occurrence has two causes
C) That factor must be the cause
D) That factor can be discounted

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