Nhận biết (M1)

Text 1

The University of Ohio and the startup accelerator Y Combinator are two of the many institutions offering training programs in entrepreneurship. But what results do such programs produce? In a study of small business managers in India, researcher Chris Friedrich and colleagues addressed this question and reported that participants who received entrepreneurial training showed high performance at their jobs.

Text 2

While studies of entrepreneurial training typically report positive results, a close look reveals widespread methodological shortcomings that could explain those findings. These studies are plagued by insufficient sample sizes, a lack of control groups, and failures to establish pretraining baselines for the measured attributes of participants.

Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely want to know if Friedrich and colleagues took steps to preclude which potential objection to the finding described in Text 1?

• A.

  The participants would have been less likely to show high performance at their jobs if the study sample size had been smaller.

• B.

  The participants would have responded to the training differently if they had not known that they were participating in a study.

• C.

  The participants would have shown high performance at their jobs regardless of whether they received the training.

• D.

  The participants would have shown greater responsiveness to the training if the training sessions had lasted longer.