Imagine you read a brief newspaper article that states research has shown that eating grilled-cheese sandwiches increases the risk of being struck by lightning by 25 percent.In evaluating whether you should give up the sandwiches,what is the one piece of additional information that would be most useful to you

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Knowing the base rate of lightning strikes and whether the increase in risk is meaningful is the most useful information. Without this information, it is unclear if the increase in risk from eating grilled-cheese sandwiches is significant enough to warrant giving up the sandwiches. The other options do not provide relevant information for evaluating the risk.

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