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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by statistical manipulation because who says

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facts can't be subjective right Check out this passage nineteen

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seventy five minute warning your rate of three point five

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All right The article discusses how on the Job deaths

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reduced from 14:1000 in nineteen seventy forty five hundred in

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two thousand ten The writer mentions this data primarily to

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do what and your options air here Okay admittedly a

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dozen deaths a day is still a bunch And the

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article does mention that there is more work to be

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done Obviously the ideal number of workplace desk would be

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closer to like zero But that's not the primary point

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here The author's proud of the progress that osha has

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made so a isn't correct Now considering answer b this

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is also arguably a true statement There will always be

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deaths in the workplace unless we start bubble wrapping employees

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but probably gonna happen And even that's not a hundred

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percent guaranteed but that's not what's being emphasized in this

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passage forty five hundred deaths is a lot less than

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fourteen thousand way fewer people are getting offed each day

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So the writers kind of tooting his own horn here

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He's proud of the work osha has done limiting accidents

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and driving job growth and he's certainly not giving away

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any credit to the private sector This passage is all

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about celebrating the success of osha in the most passionate

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way a government employee knows how the dry recitation of

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numbers and statistical comparisons gogo government alright sees the correct

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answer Aren't you impressed by the persuasive Power of statistics

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Statistically speaking there's A seventy seven point three percent chance 00:01:45.113 --> [endTime] that you should be Yeah

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