Information and IdeasVery hardFinding that weakens a claim about an effect
Information and Ideas practice question
A school claims that its new breakfast club improved punctuality, since late arrivals fell by 40% in the term after the club opened.
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the school's claim?
- A. In the same term the council rerouted the school bus so that it arrived fifteen minutes earlier, and late arrivals fell by a similar amount at a nearby school with no breakfast club.Correct
- B. Pupils say they enjoy the breakfast club.
- C. The club serves porridge and fruit.
- D. The club is free to attend.
Answer: A. In the same term the council rerouted the school bus so that it arrived fifteen minutes earlier, and late arrivals fell by a similar amount at a nearby school with no breakfast club.
An earlier bus and the same fall elsewhere account for the change without the club.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Pupils say they enjoy the breakfast club.
- Enjoyment doesn't show cause.
- C. The club serves porridge and fruit.
- The menu is irrelevant.
- D. The club is free to attend.
- Cost is irrelevant to punctuality.
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