AP Statistics Name ____________________________________________ Chapter 4 Practice Test Part I - Multiple Choice 1. Suppose that the scatterplot of (log x‚ log y) shows a strong positive correlation Which of the following must be true? I. The variables x and y also have a correlation close to 1. II. A scatterplot of (x‚ y) shows a strong nonlinear pattern. III. The residual plot of the variables x and y shows a random pattern. (a) I only (b) II only (c) III only (d) I and
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Quietly Plotting The normal ups and downs of life mean that everyone feels sad or has "the blues" from time to time. But if emptiness and despair have taken hold of a person’s life and won’t go away‚ they may have depression. Depression is an illness that involves the body‚ mood and thoughts. Depression affects the way a person eats and sleeps‚ feels about themselves‚ and the way they think of the things around them. On October 2‚ 2010‚ my cousin committed suicide due to this illness. Most of us
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are almost identical when it comes to their views on some moral issues. In regards to euthanasia‚ Kant and Catholicism have different reasons‚ yet their views are the same in that they say euthanasia is wrong. To find whether or not Kant and Catholics agree or disagree‚ there must first be a consensus on whether euthanasia is the same as killing someone. As defined by Webster’s dictionary‚ to
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How "realistic" is Kantian "empirical realism"? Mainly by way of commentary on passages from the Analytic of Principles and Appendix to the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason‚ Abela offers‚ first‚ the "priority-of-judgment" view: "Kant...banish[es] the idea of any epistemic intermediary between belief and the world" (35); "there is nothing outside judgment...that informs‚ constrains‚ or ultimately grounds objectively valid judgment" (139-40). The ultimate ground is simply the totality of one’s
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we have towards another person‚ a group or society as a whole. In this sense‚ deontology is concerned with the intrinsic properties of actions‚ not their end result. Immanuel Kant is arguably the most famous advocate of modern deontology. According to Kant‚ moral law is synthetic apriori and took an absolutist approach. Kant argued that since everyone possesses the capacity to reason and has a conscience‚ it would be possible for all people to arrive at an understanding of moral truths without the
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Holland defines miracles as a “remarkable and beneficial coincidence that is interpreted in a religious fashion‚” whereas David Hume‚ writing during the Enlightenment period as an empiricist claimed that miracles are both improbable and irrational. In his book‚ Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding‚ Hume defined miracles as a violation of the laws of nature. Although Hume may say that miracles are the least likely of events‚ that does not lead on to say that they do not occur at all; it is possible
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their families provide moral justification for the poor work conditions‚ and low wages that sweatshop labor provides? German philosopher Immanuel Kant would argue that there must be changes made in the politics of sweatshops to improve there conditions. Using his idea of the “Categorical Imperative” and treating people as “valuable in themselves” Kant would not completely take away the opportunity for these people to support themselves working in factories but make it a more humane system. Utilitarian
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Universal Law and The Formula of the End in Itself. The first formulation is best described by the following statement‚ “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.” (Kant‚ 1785‚ 1993). What does this mean? A maxim is the fundamental rule of conduct or your moral belief upon which you chose to act. A universal law is a law that everyone must follow regardless of the outcome. How do we determine if the maxim can
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Hume- Impressions = experiences perception of self. Many people have presupposed perceptions of self. Many consider Hume to be archaic. 17th century worldview presupposes science and science’s worldview of understanding nature. Wood has a view of nature as mechanistic‚ Hume shares Wood’s view. With Hume it’s presupposed. People often jump to Wood’s presuppositions without questioning his initial reasoning. Science is essentially mathematics applied to nature. Ledger Wood says everything is
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not vary with the relationships the person‚ whose character trait is being evaluated‚ has with us. It is therefore counterintuitive for Hume to have his account of morality based on sympathy‚ which apparently possesses such a biased character. When two persons‚ with different relationships with us‚ share
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