For the Following Question,refer to the Following Excerpt

question 58

Multiple Choice

For the following question,refer to the following excerpt. The children of the bright,good parents were spared the more immediate sort of suffering that our inferiors were undergoing.And because of that,when our parents were opposed to the war,they were opposed in a bloodless,theoretical fashion,as they might be opposed to political corruption or racism in South Africa.As long as the little gold stars [sent to parents whose son was killed in war] kept going to homes in Chelsea [a working-class part of Boston] and the backwoods of West Virginia,the mothers of Beverly Hills and Chevy Chase and Great Neck and Belmont [all affluent suburbs] were not on the telephone to their congressman screaming,"You killed my boy." ...It is clear by now that if the men of Harvard had wanted to do the very most they could to help shorten the war,they should have been drafted or imprisoned en masse.
James Fallows,"What Did You Do in the Class War,Daddy?" Washington Monthly,October 1975
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective expressed in the excerpt above?

• A) Civil rights activists
• B) Women's groups
• C) The new conservative movement
• D) Middle-class suburbanites

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Definitions:

T-distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and/or when the population variance is unknown.

Test Statistic

A test statistic is a value calculated from sample data during a hypothesis test. It's compared to a critical value to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

μ

The symbol for the mean or average of a set of data points in statistics.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a population away from its mean.