Which of the Following Is True

question 37

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true?

• A) In low-income countries, less than 5 percent of those 15 and older were illiterate during the period of 2005 to 2009.
• B) In middle-income countries, 17 percent of those 15 and older were illiterate during the period 2005 to 2009.
• C) In high-income countries, 38 percent of those 15 and older were illiterate during the period of 2005 to 2009.
• D) Education bears little relationship to economic development in high-income countries.
• E) Education is more important to the economic development of low-income countries than it is to high-income countries.

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Definitions:

Condorcet Voting Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclic (i.e., not transitive), even if the individual preferences of voters are not.

Transitivity

In decision theory, the principle that if preference A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater than C.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A theorem that demonstrates the impossibility of devising a social welfare function that satisfies all of a specified set of reasonable conditions simultaneously.

Majority Rule

A decision-making rule in which policies or choices are decided based on the preference of the majority of participants.