Selecting Evidence

Score for this attempt: 3.83 out of 5

Submitted Oct 7, 2018 at 3:49pm
This attempt took 20 minutes.

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Question 1

The Stop Obesity Now campaign came up with an advertising campaign

focusing on overweight children . You are writing an essay addressing
the issue: Should overweight children be featured in an PSA's to stop
childhood obesity? You have found the following three testimonies. Rank
them in order of credibility, 1 being the most credible testimony and 3
being the least credible.

Correct! "Billboards depicting fat

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kids are extraordinarily
harmful to the very kids
they are supposedly trying
to help," said the President
of the National Association
to Advance Fat
Acceptance.

Correct! "Stigma is not an effective

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motivator," said Rebecca
Puhl, a Yale University
psychologist who is a
leading weight
discrimination. "If children
are stigmatized, they're
much more likely to
engage in unhealthy
habits."

Correct! "There will always be

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critics, but our approach is
effective," the press office
of Stop Obesity Now said
in an e-mail.

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Question 2
 You are writing an essay addressing the issue: Is child obesity a problem
in the United States today? You have found the following statistics. Rank
them from most to least credible by putting 1 next to the most credible
statistic, 2 next to the next most credible, and 3 next to the least credible
statistic.

Correct! According to the Arizona

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Republic, doctors in
developed countries have
seen a 15 to 25 percent
increase in the number of
newborn babies weighing
over 8 lbs, 13 oz--the
weight at which a newborn
is considered "oversized."

Correct! Vending machines, some

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stocked with cookies and
sodas, exist in 17 percent
of elementary schools, 83
percent of middle schools,
and 97 percent of high
schools.

Correct! According to the Centers

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of Disease Control, the
epidemic of childhood
obesity among American
children is alarming.
Obesity rates have tripled
among kids 12 to 19 since
1980, with one third of
America's youth now
overweight or obese.

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Question 3

You are writing an essay addressing the issue: Do overweight and obese
children suffer socially as a result of their weight? You have found the
following evidence. Rank the evidence from most to least credible by
putting 1 next to the most credible statistic, 2 next to the next most
credible, and 3 next to the least credible statistic.

Correct! Michael Loewy, a

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psychology professor at
the University of North
 Dakota, paints an
unsettling picture in his
essay Working With Fat
Children in Schools: "It is
amazing that so many fat
children survive
adolescence, given the
hatred and meanness
directed at them."

ou Answered Victims of size

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discrimination often suffer
from depression, anxiety
and loneliness. They may
also suffer from low self-
esteem, voluntarily serving
as the butt of jokes--the
stereotypical funny fat
kid."

This factual statement could be verified with some research on the

part of the reader, and it appear to make sense from what we know.
However, ideally, we don't have to do additional research, and the
fact uses abstract words such as often and may also which makes
the fact more general and therefore less valuable.

ou Answered A recent survey indicated

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that 83% of overweight
teens admitted that their
weight caused them to be
anxious and unhappy.

This statistic sounds good, but it is worthless. First of all, who

collected the data? How many children were surveyed? What
children were surveyed? Why were they surveyed?

Correct!
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Question 4

You are writing an essay addressing the issue: Why is childhood obesity
increasing? You have found the following pieces of evidence. Rank them
from most to least credible by putting 1 next to the most credible statistic,
2 next to the next most credible, and 3 next to the least credible statistic.

ou Answered In a recent survey, 75% of

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respondents said that it
was the mother who was
to blame if a child is
overweight.

This statistic is basically worthless. Who did the survey? Who was
included in the survey? How many people were in the survey? If 4
fathers were asked, " If your child is overweight, who is to blame," it
would not be surprising if 3 of the 4 blamed the mother.

Correct! In the Latino community

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chubbiness isn't viewed as
a negative. Indeed, the
Spanish term gordito,
which essentially means
"cute, little fat boy" is a
term of endearment. Extra
weight is seen as a sign of
contentment, an indication
that the child is happy, has
a good, strong appetite
and that his parents are
feeding him well.

ou Answered "We heard from [mothers

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of overweight children]
that they were concerned
about their kids being
overweight or obese, they
don't necessarily identify it
as being a real health
problem in their home
especially when they have
plenty of other more
pressing issues on their
mind," explained Kerri
Arthur.
 This testimony would be credible if we knew who Kerri Arthur was
and who made up the we in we heard.

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Question 5

You are writing an essay addressing the issue: Is obesity really a

problem? You have found the following pieces of evidence. Rank them
from most to least credible by putting 1 next to the most credible statistic,
2 next to the next most credible, and 3 next to the least credible statistic.

Correct! In a new study by US and

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European researchers
overweight people were
found to be at no greater
risk of developing or dying
from heart disease or
cance than normal weight
people, as long as they
were "metabolically fit."

Correct! Ragen Chastain, dancer,

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choreographer, and writer
argues that the increase in
obesity is not really a
problem. She writes,
"We're also taller than
we've ever been but
nobody wants to scream
about the Tallness
Epidemic or how they have
the hot new thing to make
everyone shorter. (And
isn't it interesting that
we're okay with bodies
comin in different heights,
but not in different
widths?)"

Correct! In a study published in the

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current issue of the
European Heart Journal,
researchers looked at
nearly 65,000 patients with
heart disease and found
that overweight and obese
people had the lowest risk
of early death, compared
with normal-wieght or
underweight patients;
those who were
underweight had the
highest risk.