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Mary Rodale studied discrimination against women plumbers. She hypothesized that individuals who believe strongly in traditional sex roles would be more discriminatory than individuals who showed strong non-traditional sex roles. She contacted 100 individual home owners who planned to hire a plumber. She offered each subject six possible plumbers to choose from. The plumbers had varying levels of experience and training and charged different rates. One of the six was a woman and the other five were men. Every single home owner who believed strongly in traditional sex roles chose a male. All those who believed in non-traditional sex roles ignored gender and chose on the basis of skill and price alone.
-The Lord of the Rings movies are a trilogy because there are three movies to the series. This statement makes what kind of error of causality?
A) ecological fallacy
B) teleology
C) reductionism
D) tautology

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The statement about The Lord of the Rings movies being a trilogy because there are three movies in the series is a tautology, which means it is a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form. It's essentially restating the definition of a trilogy as its own explanation.

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