Claude, a Baptist teenager, reads a flawed study showing that Baptists are smarter than most people. Then he reads a second study with similar flaws proposing that Baptists are poor leaders. What would you predict will happen?
a. He would overlook the flaws in the first study and dismiss the findings of the second study.
b. He would now believe that Baptists are poor leaders
c. He would now believe that Baptists are both smarter and poor leaders.
d. He would dismiss the findings of the first study and overlook the flaws in the second study.
a
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