Craft and StructureVery hardWeighing two accounts of the same evidence
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
The sharp fall in the town's recorded burglaries after 2015 shows that the new street lighting deterred thieves, argues councillor Ravi Menon.
Text 2
Recorded burglaries fell across the whole region after 2015, in lit and unlit towns alike, when the police changed how minor break-ins were classified. The town's fall is real in the records and may be nothing more than that.
Which choice best describes how the author of Text 2 responds to Menon's argument?
- A. By showing that the fall Menon cites is explained by a region-wide change in record-keeping rather than by the lighting.Correct
- B. By denying that the lighting was installed.
- C. By arguing that burglaries actually rose.
- D. By claiming that lighting attracts thieves.
Answer: A. By showing that the fall Menon cites is explained by a region-wide change in record-keeping rather than by the lighting.
Region-wide, lit and unlit alike, a classification change: the fall is in the records, not the streets.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By denying that the lighting was installed.
- The lighting is not disputed.
- C. By arguing that burglaries actually rose.
- Text 2 says the fall in the records is real.
- D. By claiming that lighting attracts thieves.
- Not claimed.
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