Parkinsons Law, an observation advanced by the British civil servant

­Parkinson’s Law, an observation advanced by the British civil servant C. Northcote Parkinson, for whom it is named, posits that bureaucracies expand to fill the space available for their expansion. One of Parkinson’s principal pieces of evidence for his Law was the remarkable growth of the British Colonial Office, whose staff continued to swell as the British colonies weakened, and which actually attained its greatest size and influence at the precise moment the British colonial empire collapsed.

Which of the following does NOT illustrate a phenomenon similar to those covered by Parkinson’s Law?

A. The demand for military research tends to correlate positively with the amount of money governments allot to the military each year.

B. The bigger the pie that my aunt bakes, the more of my relatives show up to eat it.

C. Many prominent Hollywood sitcom writers attest that the time it takes to script an episode is dictated by the time a studio provides them to script that episode.

D. Parkinson’s coefficient of inefficiency further predicts that the efficiency of an administrative body decreases in proportion to the number of members added to it.

E. Most professional athletes remark that the amount of money required to sustain their families, image, and lifestyle grows as their income over the course of their careers.


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