|Question 15Verbal

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The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) seeks to discover long-term trends related to childhood development by compiling and analyzing evidence from approximately 12,000 participants in Germany. As with most longitudinal studies, extensive funding support is needed for SOEP to collect the relevant data over timescales and at intervals that will support robust conclusions. But the quality of a more constrained investigation, such as a transportation study seeking only to yield the average number of people per day who use a city's public transportation system, is much less dependent on high levels of funding because ______
Which choice most logically completes the text?
such studies are not trying to identify trends over time.
A
the transportation study is unlikely to be able to recruit 12,000 participants.
B
expanding the scope of such studies is unlikely to be feasible.
C
such studies are likely to be a lower priority for funding than SOEP.
D