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The widely repeated claim that goldfish retain a memory of only a few seconds is entirely ______: in controlled trials, the fish learned to approach a feeder at a fixed hour and continued to do so after an interval of five months, and they reliably distinguished among visual patterns on which they had been trained the previous season. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  1. overstated
  2. anecdotal
  3. baseless
  4. outdated

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