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Michelle Pereira et al. hypothesized that introducing health improvements into workplaces would increase productivity by reducing absenteeism (sick employees not working) and presenteeism (sick workers working less productively due to illness). Pereira's team enrolled groups of Australian workers in two programs: one that gave employees exercise training (EET) and one that enrolled employees in health promotion seminars (EHP). They then calculated the productivity loss of those groups at 12 weeks and 12 months after the programs began (based on the 28 days preceding each point). They concluded that exercise training was more effective at restraining productivity loss than health promotion seminars were, though this result took time to become apparent.

Which choice best describes data from the table that most effectively strengthen Pereira and colleagues' conclusion?

Productivity loss for the EET group barely decreased between 12 weeks and 12 months after the program began, while productivity loss for the EHP group significantly increased during the same time period.

Productivity loss was largely due to absenteeism for the EHP group at 12 months after the program began, while productivity loss was largely due to presenteeism for the EET group at 12 months after the program began.

Productivity loss was consistently higher for the EHP group than for the EET group over the twelve months that it was measured, though the size of the difference between the two decreased over that time.

Productivity loss was fairly similar for the EET and EHP groups 12 weeks after each program began, but at 12 months afterward it had significantly increased for the EHP group and significantly decreased for the EET group.