Ordering the Chaos of the Contemporary World: An Introduction to Freakonomics

Question 1

evidence to support wrestler cheating

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2; 1; 5; 3; 6; 4

Question 2

a claim about sumo wrestlers and cheating

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1 a claim about sumo wrestlers and cheating

Question 3

an example about morality in business

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5 an example about morality in business

Question 4

a conclusion that wrestlers tend to cheat

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3 a conclusion that wrestlers tend to cheat

Question 5

a conclusion that most people are moral

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6 a conclusion that most people are moral

Question 6

a question about the morality of humankind

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4 a question about the morality of humankind

Question 7

What type of reasoning is this an example of?

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inductive

Question 8

Which of the following did you include in your answer? Check any that apply.

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their claim about cheating existing in high-incentive situations; the facts they present about sumo and the bagel business; their use of statistical evidence; their use of different examples (sumo and bagels) in their evidence; their overall use of inductive reasoning to arrive at a generalization about morality

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