Practice question · True or false
Because the service class expanded so much after 1945, sons of working-class fathers came to face the same chance of entering it as sons of service-class fathers.
Hints
- Compare the two outflow percentages given in this lesson.
- Expansion changes how many arrive; it does not by itself change relative chances.
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False
Why
False. In the illustrative table the chances are 30 per cent against 60 per cent, an odds ratio above five. Expansion of the destination class raised the absolute numbers arriving from every origin without equalising the rates, which is exactly the distinction the lesson turns on.
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