All events are caused but some are caused by human beings is the doctrine of

a) hard determinism.
b) soft determinism.
c) soft indeterminism.
d) hard indeterminism.


B

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Johnson is hired by a company to see if a new product, Topocal, will cause hair to grow on the heads of bald men. He recruits one thousand bald men and randomly divides them into two groups: Five hundred men (group A) rub Topocal on their scalps each day; the other five hundred (group B) rub a standard skin lotion on their scalps each day. After two months, Johnson checks to see what the results have been. He finds that there has been hair growth in 7 percent of group A and in 2 percent of group B.What is the population?

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