61.
Which of the following is an appropriate practice for improving your interpretation of
findings?
62.
Garrett conducts a study of a company that shows that employees who work more than
eight hours a day are paid more than their co-workers. This leads Garrett to believe that
working longer hours results in higher pay rates. However, re-analysis of the data from the
study shows that the employees working longer hours have salaried jobs and are paid the
same rate no matter how many hours they work. Their higher pay rate is a result of their
increased responsibilities. Which of the following errors in interpretation is illustrated by
Garrett’s initial conclusion?
63.
In the absence of any information establishing Mr. Simon Chavez as a good credit risk, you
conclude he is a poor risk and turn down his application for a store credit card. Which
fallacy is most likely to undermine the validity of your decision?
64.
The conventional outlining system uses _____ to show the major headings in a report.
65.
The conventional outlining system typically uses _____ to show the lesser headings in a
report.
66.
The decimal outlining system uses _____ to show the major sections in a report.
67.
Which of the following organization patterns is best suited for creating an outline of a
report regarding the progress of a company merger?
68.
If the information you have collected has some relation to geographic location, you should
typically use a _____ pattern of organization.
69.
Which of the following headings from a report violates parallelism of construction?
70.
Which of the following headings, taken from the same report, violates parallelism of
construction?
71.
Which of the following headings from a report violates parallelism of construction?
72.
Which of the following headings from a report violates parallelism of construction?
73.
Which of the following headings from a report violates parallelism of construction?
74.
Which of the following statements about constructing headings is
not
true?
75.
Which of the following statements about impersonal and personal writing is true?
76.
Using present-time viewpoint requires that all