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1) Any unintended amibiguity, divulgence, or complication that results from a written or spoken statement because the author failed to properly visualize how others would interpret him.
The etymology is from a poster with the screen name "KainMorpheus" on an online forum (www.intellectualwhores.com/forum). Altrenates are: 1) "kain" 2) "k error" 3) "k-error" Imagine the following test question:
1) Blah blah bleugh blippity blah blah? a) Between 60 and 75% b) More than 40% c) More than 75% d) Less than 60% e) Between 0 and 25% This is a kain error because the nature of the answer choices themselves reveal the correct answer (d). |
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