Members of the heaven's gate cult, who "knew" there was a spaceship following the hale-bopp comet, returned a perfectly good telescope they had purchased because they failed to see the spaceship they "knew" was there. such behaviors demonstrate that

People will often go off the limits to justify their beliefs.

Explanation:

Members of the Heaven's Gate cult assumed that there was  a spaceship following the Hale-Bopp comet without any research. Even the spaceship was not be seen with the telescopes. So the members of the Heaven's Gate returned the telescope despite they didn't has any defects on the fact that they believed that there was a spaceship.

the median of the data is 4.

step-by-step explanation:

the median means the middle number of a given number.

to decide which one is the median, arrange in ascending or descending order. but sometimes, you may find two(2) number in the middle, but it's easy, just add them together and divide by 2.

so,   determine the median of the data. 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9

it is already arranged, count 3 times forward and 3 backward and the one left is your answer.

2,3,3,4,5,7,9

our answer is 4.

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