Critical Reasoning: The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a decline in television viewing, sinceithad been assumed that people lacksufficient free time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: In a recent mail survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing time spent per week using computers reportnochangein time spentwatching television. Which of the following would be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the argument?

A Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television regularly,

B Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people who report that they rarely or neveruse computers.

C Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the amount of time spent per week using computers increases.

D Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending increasing amounts of time per week using computers.

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Correct Answer: Option E

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