Business I / Social Stratification
Practice question · Estimate

Top-born children reach the top with odds 3-to-1; bottom-born children with odds 1-to-4. Set the slider to the odds ratio OR=3÷0.25OR = 3 \div 0.25.

Estimate on a scale from 0 to 20.

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  1. Convert both to numeric odds: 3 and 0.25.
  2. 3/0.253 / 0.25.
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12 (answers within ±1 count)

Why

OR=3/0.25=12OR = 3/0.25 = 12: birth at the top multiplies the odds of ending there twelve-fold. An OR of 1 would mean origins are irrelevant, this society is a long way from that.

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