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1. ______ are a type of supporting material that aids understanding by making ideas, items,
or events more concrete.
2. ______ examples are effective for making a point about something that could happen in
the future.
3. ______, or stories, tell tales that are either real or imaginary.
4. Brief stories of interesting, often humorous, incidents based on real life are called
______.
5. Firsthand findings, eyewitness accounts, and opinions are called ______.
6. ______ testimony includes findings, eyewitness accounts, or opinions by professionals
who are trained to evaluate a particular topic.
7. ______ testimony is testimony by nonexperts.
8. ______ are quantified evidence that summarizes, compares, and predicts things.
9. A(n) ______ is the quantified portion of a whole.
10. ______ is a count of the number of times something occurs.
11. The arithmetic (or computed) average is called the ______.
12. The most frequently occurring score in a distribution is called the ______.
13. Speakers should always use ______ sources, or those from the most authoritative sources.
14. ______ is selectively presenting only those statistics that support one's own point of view
while ignoring competing data.
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Answer Key
1. Examples
2. Hypothetical
3. Narratives
