Practice question · True or false
Shavit and Blossfeld’s conclusion that educational expansion left origin effects broadly intact has been qualified by later work finding real equalisation in several European countries.
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- Note carefully what the statement claims about the direction of the later evidence.
- The later work by Breen and colleagues found equalisation, which qualifies the original verdict rather than confirming it.
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False
Why
False as written, because the sentence is stated as though the qualification were absent. The original 1993 finding was persistence across thirteen countries; Breen and colleagues in 2009 found genuine equalisation in several European cases over the twentieth century. The defensible position is persistence with real exceptions, and the exceptions are not optional.
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