#16 - Future overall demand for professors can be predicted

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

Must Be True, Principle. The correct answer choice is (B).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D):

Answer choice (E):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[katnyc]

Hello,

Can someone please explain the difference between A and B. This question to me seemed too broad and I did not know what to look for and it did not make enough sense to me. Any help would be appreciate.

Thank you

[Luke Haqq]

Hi katnyc!

Breaking down the stimulus can help in this case. It consists of two sentences. The first sentence is a more general claim--it's about predictions related to "overall demand" for professors generally. The second sentence is a more specific claim--it's about predictions for a subset/particular type of professor.

Answer choice (A) states, "The more detailed and complete the evidence, the more precise predictions based on that evidence are." This is about the soundness of data. One would expect the stimulus to be about compiling more and more evidence of something, and then relating that to predictive power. But there isn't anything like that collecting and accumulating of data in the stimulus.

Answer choice (B) states, "The more general the level of a prediction, the more accurate it is." The brief sketch above of the two sentences in the stimulus (general claim, then more specific claim) makes this answer choice look good. In addition, it maps what the stimulus is doing--the first sentence is about statistics framed in general terms being more accurate in their predictive power, and the second is about more specific terms and less predictive accuracy.