Muhammad is conducting research on the relationship between ...

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Muhammad is conducting research on the
 
  relationship between education and fertility. Muhammad finds that the more education a woman has, the fewer children she is likely to have because educated women spend much of their childbearing years in school or climbing the career ladder. This suggests that there is a ___________________ __ between education and fertility.
 
  a. positive correlation b. spurious correlation c. negative correlation d. none of the above

Question 2

The text describes fascinating advances in military technology that includes remote control drones, killer satellites, and laser guided bombs. Will advances such as these make the soldier of the twentieth century obsolete?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

No. There will always be a need to maintain and program equipment and, of course, to use it. Although the method of warfare for technological advanced nations has changed significantly in the past twenty years, it has not created a world of universal peace which means there will still be the need for a common soldier promoting the defense of his or her nation or that nation's objectives.