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What common misconception do many people hold about B. F. Skinner?
a)  That he wanted to manipulate the environment in order to control people; in reality, he wanted to improve human behavior by applying operant-conditioning principles.
b)  That he was a member of the Communist Party; in reality, he advocated a variant of totalitarianism as an effective form of self-government.
c)  That he once won $250,000 in Las Vegas by applying behaviorist principles to the game of poker; in reality, he was a well-known blackjack player.
d)  That he started a self-sufficient commune based on operant-conditioning principles; in reality, he was asked by the CIA to infiltrate and modify an existing commune.
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