After Reading the Newspaper Article Reporting the Standardized Testing Scores

question 79

Multiple Choice

After reading the newspaper article reporting the standardized testing scores of various schools throughout the city,Sam asserted that the teachers in school A should all be fired because of the low results.Darlene asked Sam if he ever considered that school A was located in the poorest section of the city with one of the highest proportions of English as Second Language students.What was Darlene arguing?

• A) explanatory pluralism
• B) multiple causation
• C) randomization of causality
• D) incomprehensible causation

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