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Researchers have found that children's academic achievements are higher when their parents’ incomes are higher. Some researchers have attributed this trend to the fact that parents with high incomes have usually also had extensive education, claiming that extensive education lets parents impart to their children an increased appreciation of academics. Other researchers, however, have attributed these academic achievements to the ability to invest larger amounts of money on private tutors.
Which of the following, if true, most supports the selection of one hypothesis over the other?
Hyphothesis1: extensive education imparting to children( maybe encourage by parents/ or inherited academic mind)
Hypothesis2: it is due to private tutoring
A. Children who achieve better scores in school earn more money when they grow up.
Irrelevant:
If children achieve bettr score they earn more money. What about their children?
Argument is about children of rich parents.
( doesn’t relate with both the hyphothesis)
B. Children who dislike studying will not do so, no matter the resources they have available.So children are genuinely interested in studies.- support hypothesis 1
If they are interested, private tutoring won’t help/ -weaken hyphothesis2
C. Recent surveys show an ever-growing gap among the test scores of children from different social classes.
Rich get more marks. Poor get low marks?
Support hypothesis2
Weaken hyphtoesis1
But here open question about different social classes.
It maybe medium class get poor than low rich families or can be reverse.
So we need to assume extra
Hence reject this option
D. In after-school academic enrichment courses, children from low-income families achieve more than other children do.
If low-income families’ children achieve more than after school, then it indicates that money doesn’t help.
Hyphothesis 2 is weakened.
Hyphothesis1 is not clear based on this information without overall academic achievement. Does it mean children from rich families achieve higher in schools. Why not low class children achieve lowe r in school? Some open question on this option.
E. Children with better achievements help improve their parents’ education.
(irrelevant : not related with any of hypothesis. Moreover reverse relation is mentioned). We care about children education but not parents education.
Final answer: B