Ryan has just started a new semester in college. He attends his first lecture on statistics. Halfway through the lecture, Ryan's disinterest in the subject prompts him to make up his mind that statistics will be boring for the rest of the semester. In this scenario, Ryan has made the _____ form of assessment.
A) deterministic safety decision
B) peripheral referencing
C) body feedback
D) thin-slice judgment
E) probabilistic analysis

Question

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Ryan has made a quick and superficial judgment about the entire subject of statistics based on a small sample size (halfway through one lecture), which is characteristic of a thin-slice judgment. The other options are not relevant to this scenario.

Ryan Has Just Started a New Semester in College