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The Office - Groundbreaking Research #D0068

A: We’ve been over this a thousand times. The data is irrefutable! Look, we’ve done extensive research, built studies, and read the literature, and there is conclusive evidence to support my theory!

B: Horowitz, I beg to differ. Even in your most recent study, the investigative approach was flawed! You know as well as I do that the collection of data was not systematic, and there is a large margin of error. To draw a definitive conclusion based on that data would be misleading.

A: That is preposterous!

B: You are trying to single-handedly solve one of the world’s greatest mysteries, and yet you are oblivious to the fact that you are wrong!

A: I am not wrong! The chicken came first!

B: No! The egg came first!

Key Vocabulary

definitive conclusion - a final judgment that is not able to be changed; that is final

singlehandedly - do something on your own, without help

investigative approach - way of looking for information

flawed - having errors or mistake

preposterous - crazy, foolish, or silly

oblivious to - unaware or don’t know

extensive research - very full and complete study to find information

systematic - using a careful system or method

irrefutable - correct; not able to be proved wrong

Supplementary Vocabulary

associated with - linked or connected with

circumstantial evidence - a collection of facts that implies or suggests something to be true, but does not prove it

indicate - show something to be true

a compelling case - an argument that is capable of making people believe that point of view

determine - find out if something is true