Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. Anything can be measured. If a thing can be observed in any way at all, it lends itself to some type of
measurement method. No matter how "fuzzy" the measurement is, it's still a measurement if it tells you more than you knew before. And challenges posed by those things most likely to be seen as immeasurable are, virtually always, met by relatively simple measurement methods. Dougles W. Hubbard, How to Measure Anything
A) Argument; conclusion: If a thing can be observed ... measurement method.
B) Argument; conclusion: Anything can be measured.
C) Argument; conclusion: And challenges posed ... simple measurement methods.
D) Argument; conclusion: No matter how "fuzzy" ... more than you knew before.
E) Nonargument.
B
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