Craft and StructureHardApplying a general caution to a specific claim
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Before crediting a training scheme with lower unemployment, economist Mia Halvorsen advises checking what happened to unemployment in comparable places without the scheme.
Text 2
The council reports that unemployment in the district fell from 9% to 6% in the two years after its training scheme began, proving the scheme's success.
Based on the texts, how would Halvorsen most likely respond to the council's report?
- A. By asking whether unemployment also fell in similar districts that had no scheme.Correct
- B. By agreeing that the fall proves the scheme worked.
- C. By arguing that the scheme should be cancelled.
- D. By denying that unemployment fell.
Answer: A. By asking whether unemployment also fell in similar districts that had no scheme.
Halvorsen's test: compare with places without the scheme.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that the fall proves the scheme worked.
- Her caution is precisely against that conclusion.
- C. By arguing that the scheme should be cancelled.
- Not proposed.
- D. By denying that unemployment fell.
- The fall is not disputed.
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