A moral patient is an individual
What will be an ideal response?
whose interests are owed moral consideration
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One of the great challenges of philosophy is the distinction between
A. Right and wrong B. Good and evil C. Success and failure D. Appearance and reality
Identify the sample OR population of the following inductive generalization. You may assume that the premises in each of the arguments are true. So far I've taken three business courses at Sonoma State University and I've enjoyed all three. I suppose then that I'd enjoy all of the business courses offered there. What is the population?
a. All the courses offered at Sonoma State University b. All the business courses at Sonoma State University c. The three business courses I have taken at Sonoma State University
Amber notices that a few currency notes are missing from her purse kept on her coffee table. She immediately holds Lily, the housemaid, accountable for it because the previous housemaid who was from the same village as Lily had stolen money from Amber's house. In this case, Amber's thought process reflects ________.
A. hasty generalization B. relativistic thinking C. superiority bias D. narcissism
Evaluate the following generalization(s), identifying sample, population, attribute of interest, and the extent to which the claims involved are knowable. Consider carefully the size and diversification of the sample and the extent to which the population differs or may differ from the sample; remember, what's important is that the sample be representative.Osteoporosis is a degeneration of bone tissue that afflicts between fifteen and twenty million Americans and leads to approximately 1.3 million bone fractures every year. The condition is found mainly among women. A conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in 1994 reported that calcium was one of the "mainstays of prevention and management of osteoporosis." In a localized study designed to help predict the future
incidence of osteoporosis in women in a midwestern community, a county hospital did a survey on calcium intake. It selected five hundred women at random and asked them to keep a record of their food and dietary supplements for one month. The data were analyzed to determine the amounts of calcium each woman received. It was determined that 85 percent of the surveyed women received less calcium than the recommended amount of 1,000 to 1,500 milligrams per day. County medical authorities concluded that about 85 percent of the community's women were getting less than the recommended intake of calcium. They also concluded that local medical facilities would soon see an increase in the number of cases of osteoporosis as the calcium deficiency showed its effects. Given just the information presented here, how much confidence would you have in these conclusions? What will be an ideal response?