PT60.S1.Q11 - Most universities today offer students

bravesfan111111

In this strengthening question, the conclusion that most universities offer a cosmopolitan and in depth education is supported by the premise that most universities have history departments utilizing more culturally diverse and complete textbooks. The correct answer essentially says that the cultural inclusivity of a university’s history textbook is a strong indication of how in depth and cosmopolitan that university’s education is.
My question is how do we know that this strengthens the argument? After all, it is possible that this could mean that universities with more culturally inclusive textbooks have a less in depth and cosmopolitan education. The correct answer only tells as that there is a correlation, but it does not say what direction that correlation goes in. Thanks in advance for the help.

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btate87

It sounds like you might have a Sufficient Assumption answer in mind rather than strengthen. The correct answer does only tell us that there's a correlation, but that correlation is more information than we had before on the link between textbook inclusivity and cosmopolitan education. It definitely doesn't prove anything, but it does give us a correlation to strengthen what was previously a speculative link.