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Studies have shown that, the higher the average level of education of
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13 Feb 2024, 18:15
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Studies have shown that, the higher the average level of education of members of a society, the fewer children are had on average by members of that society. Clearly then, we can slow population growth by improving access to education.
Which of the following, if true, does the most to confirm the above conclusion?
A. Parents who have many children often have difficulty paying for their children to be educated.
B. On average, the more educated people are, the more knowledgeable they are about how to optimally rear children.
C. It is not the case that the governments that do the most to promote education are also those that do the most to advocate having small families.
D. Children who are better educated tend to cause their parents less trouble than children who are less well educated.
E. People who have children as teenagers are more likely to drop out of school than and tend to have more children than people who start having children later in life.
Which of the following, if true, does the most to confirm the above conclusion?
A. Parents who have many children often have difficulty paying for their children to be educated.
B. On average, the more educated people are, the more knowledgeable they are about how to optimally rear children.
C. It is not the case that the governments that do the most to promote education are also those that do the most to advocate having small families.
D. Children who are better educated tend to cause their parents less trouble than children who are less well educated.
E. People who have children as teenagers are more likely to drop out of school than and tend to have more children than people who start having children later in life.
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16 Feb 2024, 06:47
can anybody explain this question to me?
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16 Feb 2024, 16:30
ca01248 wrote:
can anybody explain this question to me?
Studies have shown that, the higher the average level of education of members of a society, the fewer children are had on average by members of that society. Clearly then, we can slow population growth by improving access to education.
Which of the following, if true, does the most to confirm the above conclusion?
C. It is not the case that the governments that do the most to promote education are also those that do the most to advocate having small families.
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You confirm this conclusion by eliminating an alternative explanation for having fewer average numbers of childern within educated society. Becasue if the goverments in educated socities are exerting huge effort to adocate having small familites, then the "cause-and-effect" relationship falls apart.