Craft and StructureHardApplying a caution to a report
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
When two things rise together over time, statistician Eve Marsh warns, the link may be nothing more than both following the same upward trend — population growth, say, or inflation.
Text 2
A report notes that the town's number of cafés and its number of bicycle thefts have both doubled in a decade, and suggests that café culture attracts thieves.
Based on the texts, how would Marsh most likely respond to the report's suggestion?
- A. By pointing out that both figures could simply be rising with the town's population, without any link between cafés and thefts.Correct
- B. By agreeing that cafés attract bicycle thieves.
- C. By arguing that cafés should be closed.
- D. By denying that thefts have doubled.
Answer: A. By pointing out that both figures could simply be rising with the town's population, without any link between cafés and thefts.
Marsh's warning: shared trends, not a link.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By agreeing that cafés attract bicycle thieves.
- Her caution argues against that reading.
- C. By arguing that cafés should be closed.
- Not proposed.
- D. By denying that thefts have doubled.
- The figures are not disputed.
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