|Question 7Verbal

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Text 1
The University of Wisconsin and the online class provider Coursera are two of the many institutions offering training programs in entrepreneurship. But what results do such programs produce? In a study of aspiring entrepreneurs in the United States, researcher James Chrisman and colleagues addressed this question and reported that participants who received entrepreneurial training showed high performance at their jobs.

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While studies of entrepreneurial training typically report positive results, a close look reveals widespread methodological shortcomings that could explain those findings. These studies are plagued by insufficient sample sizes, a lack of control groups, and failures to establish pretraining baselines for the measured attributes of participants.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely want to know if Chrisman and colleagues took steps to preclude which potential objection to the finding described in Text 1?
The participants would have shown greater responsiveness to the training if the training sessions had lasted longer.
A
The participants would have been less likely to show high performance at their jobs if the study sample size had been smaller.
B
The participants would have shown high performance at their jobs regardless of whether they received the training.
C
The participants would have responded to the training differently if they had not known that they were participating in a study.
D