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Eyewitness Implies Causation

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

Subject distribution

  • Evidence1

Example wrong choices

  • 19646_church-parking-variant · EVIDENCE · Choice BAdmit both opinions because Ezra saw the brake line after the crash.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 19646_church-parking-variant · EVIDENCE · Choice CExclude both opinions because Ezra is not an engineer.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice C is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 19646_church-parking-variant · EVIDENCE · Choice DExclude the broken-line observation, but admit the metal-fatigue opinion because causation is for the jury.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.

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