Analyze the following study according to the criteria set by your instructor:A study from the University of Health Sciences/Chicago Medical School suggests, says psychologist David E. Schotte, coauthor of the study, "that dieters have to learn to cope with stresses and emotional upsets in order to lose weight." Fifteen women who were frequent dieters and fifteen who dieted infrequently were all given a premeasured bag of popcorn, and then saw scenes from Halloween. After the screening, each bag was collected and reweighed. The habitual dieters ate more than twice as much popcorn as did the women who dieted infrequently.-Adapted from Sally Squires in the Washington Post
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responsibility as well as benefit.
a. True b. False
Identify any fallacies in the following passage."Requiring restaurants to post calories will never get everyone to stop overeating. What a waste of time."
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What best defines a right?
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According to James, the religious hypothesis differs from the moral and the scientific in that
A) science tells us some things are better than others, but religion does not. B) science tells us what things are, religions tells us the best things are eternal and we are better off now believing that to be true, and morality tells us some things are better than others. C) morality tells us some things are better than others, but religion tells us the way things are. D) it supports the Christian idea of heaven, but science does not.