After reading the passage from the book "Freakonomics," we can say that the type of evidence used by the authors to claim that sumo wrestlers will intentionally lose a match is:
C. Statistical.
Statistical evidence is what we have when an author presents data in numbers, especially percentages, to prove his point.
That is what happens in the passage from "Freakonomics" about sumo wrestlers who intentionally lose a match.
The authors mention "50 percent," "80 percent," and "40 percent," for example, when discussing the percentage of wins in matches and rematches.
Therefore, we can safely say that the evidence presented in the passage is statistical.
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