PT108.S2.Q17

PrepTest 108 - Section 2 - Question 17

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Two hundred randomly selected subjects were asked, "Have you ever awakened, seemingly paralyzed, with a sense of a strange presence in the room?" Forty percent answered yes. █ ████████ ████████ ███████ █████ ██ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ████ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ ██████████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ████████ ████

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Group 1: 40% of people said they’d awakened seemingly paralyzed and with a sense of a strange presence.

Group 2: 14% of people said they’d awakened seemingly paralyzed.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

These numbers don’t add up. If 40% of people have woken up seemingly paralyzed and with a sense of a strange presence, then at least 40% of people have woken up seemingly paralyzed one way or another. So how can the numbers in group 2 be so low?

The only apparent difference between these two randomly selected groups is the question each group was asked. When subjects were asked about a more specific experience, they were more likely to answer that they had experienced that thing than when subjects were asked about a more general experience. So it appears that people can be more likely to agree that something has happened to them when they’re asked in greater detail.

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17.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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