Question

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Answer 1

Consider the following situation and explain what might be a problem with the credibility of the source or the thinking involved: You got your essay back in English class and you received a "B" on it. The girl sitting behind you, a friend of yours, also received a "B" and her boyfriend, who is another period class with the same teacher and the same subject, also received a "B." You concluded then that no one that wrote that particular assignment for that particular teacher received an "A." Pitfalls in credibility?

Answer 2

Well, the assumption that the teacher did not give an "A" to any student is based off of a limited data set...that is only 3 people. The statistics involved produce a probability that your assumption has a chance of being coincidence. It is possible that you 3 were the only ones that got a "B". A class size is roughly around 25. So if you only know about 3 in 25, that is not enough to make such a generalization. The score of a "B" might have been the average or most common score with outliers in both the high A and low F ranges.

So technically, the thinking process contains flaws; but i can see your point that it is unlikely that all three of you would have the same grade. Try finding how many other people got "B"s.