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The author concludes that results showing a relationship between math skills and level of education don’t prove that education improves math skills, because it could instead be that having better math skills leads to achieving a higher level of education.
In broad terms, the author sets out a relationship between A and B, and then argues that the relationship doesn’t support infering that A causes B, because it could be that B causes A.
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(A) doesn’t present a correlation — it says that the quality of papers varies significantly between universities, but it doesn’t say, for instance, that schools with better rankings have higher quality papers.
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(B) uses the same reasoning as the argument in the stimulus: A (being a professional) and B (athletic performance) are positively correlated, but A doesn’t necessarily cause B, because B could cause A.
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(C) doesn’t establish a correlation — it doesn’t say that students from more prestigious schools get good jobs more often than normal. (C) also doesn’t say that it’s possible that B causes A — that the ability to get good jobs helps students get into prestigious schools.
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(D) states that A (law degree) is correlated with B (good at being a politician), but that A doesn’t necessarily cause B, because some people with A might have been left out of the survey. This is different from the stimulus, because (D) doesn’t suggest that B might cause A.
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(E) isn’t giving a correlation — it says that some people who are good at A (higher math) aren’t good at B (simple calculations). This is different from the argument in the stimulus.
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