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What type of logical error in making a causal statement is illustrated by the statement below?
  Members of the Ku Klux Klan dislike black people because they are highly prejudiced against Blacks.
 
  A) tautology B) ecological fallacy C) reductionism D) teleology


You find a positive relationship between mothers' education and respondents' income at age 40. The
  relationship remained after controlling for family social class. This means
 
  A) social class does not have an effect on the relationship.
  B) social class is really the causal variable.
  C) income is caused by neither mothers' education level nor social class.
  D) the original relationship is spurious.


Dr. Thompson said, A democratic form of government will develop in Sudan because it is human nature to
  want a democratic political structure. Which logical error in causal explanation is Dr. Thompson making?
 
  A) reductionism
  B) spurious statement
  C) teleology
  D) ecological fallacy
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