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Information and Ideas practice question
A survey of a town's residents found that 70 percent said they would use a new cycle lane, but a count taken six months after the lane opened found far fewer cyclists than that figure implied. The gap between the two numbers suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. what people say they will do in a survey is not a reliable guide to what they actually do.Correct
- B. the cycle lane was never built.
- C. more than 70 percent of residents used the lane.
- D. the count was taken before the lane opened.
Answer: A. what people say they will do in a survey is not a reliable guide to what they actually do.
Stated intention exceeded observed behaviour.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the cycle lane was never built.
- It opened.
- C. more than 70 percent of residents used the lane.
- Fewer were counted, not more.
- D. the count was taken before the lane opened.
- The count came six months after opening.
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