Question

HURRY PLEASE!!

Read the excerpt from Freakonomics.

Now let’s look at the win-loss percentage between the 7–7 wrestlers and the 8–6 wrestlers the next time they meet, when neither one is on the bubble. In this case, there is no great pressure on the individual match. So you might expect the wrestlers who won their 7–7 matches in the previous tournament to do about as well as they had in earlier matches against these same opponents—that is, winning roughly 50 percent of the time. You certainly wouldn’t expect them to uphold their 80 percent clip.

As it turns out, the data show that the 7–7 wrestlers win only 40 percent of the rematches. Eighty percent in one match and 40 percent in the next? How do you make sense of that?

Which type of evidence does the authors use in this excerpt to support the claim that some sumo wrestlers will intentionally lose a match?

A. anecdotal
B. testimonial
C. statistical
D. analogical

Answer 1

this answer is c!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

C. statistical

Step-by-step explanation:

Statistical evidence, although not free of mistakes and biases, is one of the strongest types of evidence that you can provide in an argument. Statistical evidence refers to the demonstration of a claim through the use of numerical information that has been drawn from test scores. In this case, the author uses statistical evidence when he informs us of the results of the matches between different wrestlers.