According to the text, which of the following was given as a reason for why people resist

the conclusion that media violence is causally related to an increase in aggressive
behavior?



a. Most people are not scientists.
b. The news media are even less likely than in years past to report stories on the
negative effects of media.
c. The wisdom of the many is correct—people have an intuitive understanding that
the scientists are, in fact, wrong about their conclusion that media violence causes
aggressive behavior.
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d. People don’t want the truth to be discovered because of the fear of government
censorship over the media.
e. None of the above reasons were given in the text.


b.

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