首页
登录
职称英语
According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week includ
According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week includ
游客
2024-12-31
15
管理
问题
According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week included a startling discovery: the nation’s Jewish population is in shrinking. The study, the National Jewish Population Survey, found 5.2 million Jews living in the United States in 2000, a drop of 5 percent, or 300,000 people, since a similar study in 1990. What’s truly startling is that the reported decline is not true. Worse still, the sponsor of the $6 million study, United Jewish Communities, knows it.
Both it and the authors have openly admitted their doubts. They have acknowledged in interviews that the population totals for 2000 and i990 were reached by different methods and are not directly comparable. The survey itself also cautions readers, in a dauntingly technical appendix, that judgment calls by the researchers may have led to an undercount. When the research director and project director were asked whether the data should be construed to indicate a declining Jewish population, they flatly answered no. In addition, other survey researchers interviewed pointed to other studies with population estimates as high as 6.7 million.
Despite all this, the two figures --5.2 million now, 5.5 million then--are listed by side in the survey, leaving the impression that the population has shrunk. The result, predictably, has been a rash of headlines trumpeting the illusionary decline, in turn touching off jeremiads by rabbis and moralists condemning the religious laxity behind it. Whether out of ideology, ego, incompetence or a combination of all three, the respected charity has invented a crisis.
United Jewish Communities is the coordinating body for a national network of Jewish philanthropies with combined budgets of $2 billion. Its population surveys carry huge weight in shaping community policy. This is not the first time the survey has set off a false alarm. The last one, conducted by a predecessor organization, found that 52 percent of American Jews who married between 1985 and 1990 did so outside the faith. That number was a fabrication produced by including marriages in which neither party was Jewish by anyone’s definition, including the researchers.
Its publication created a huge stir, inspiring anguished sermons, books and conferences. It put liberals on the defensive, emboldened conservatives who reject full integration into society and alienated ordinary folks by the increasingly xenophobic tone of Jewish communal culture. The new survey, to its credit, retracts that figure and offers the latest survey has spawned a panic created by the last one.
So why did the organization flawed figures once again? Some scholars who have studied the survey believe the motivation then came partly out of a desire to shock straying Jews into greater observance. It’s too early to tell if that’s the case this time around. What is clear is the researchers did their job with little regard to how their data could be misconstrued. They used statistical models and question formats that, while internally sound, made the new survey incompatible with the previous one. For example, this time the researchers divided the population of 5.2 million into two groups--"highly involved" Jews and "people of Jewish background"-- and posed most questions only to the first group. As a result, most findings about belief and observance refer only to a subgroup of American Jews, making comparisons to the past impossible.
We can’t afford to wait a decade before these figures are revised. The false population decline must be corrected before it further sours communal discourse. The United Jewish Communities owes it to itself and its public to step forward and state plainly what it knows to be true: American Jews are not disappearing. [br] When the author is talking about the Jewish Population Survey, he seems ______.
选项
A、to believe the shrinking of the Jews in America
B、to support the rejection of full integration into society
C、to blame United Jewish Communities
D、to be willing to tolerate the fault of United Jewish Communities
答案
C
解析
文章的主要内容是揭示调查所得出的犹太人口下降谬论并指出其负面影响。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3892540.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]NewresearchintoglobalwarmingpublishedinthejournalScie
TheKingJamesVersionoftheBiblewaspublishedin______.A、1611B、1621C、1631
Accordingtotheproposal,themultinationalforcewillleaveIraq______.[orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTincludedintheagreementtobesignedbetweenRus
Artneedsasuper-richeliteinordertoflourish,accordingtoprofessorof
From1732to175Franklinwroteandpublishedhisfamous______,anannualcollec
Thethreatfromglobalwarming,hereports,"Isveryreal.Itisonlyamatte
AccordingtoBloomfield,meaningcanbedefinedintermsofobservablestimulia
Accordingtothenews,Iranisaskingfor______.[originaltext]IranianPresi
Accordingtothenews,Iranisaskingfor______.[originaltext]IranianPresi
随机试题
在这个图像饱和的时代,对女孩照片的评价往往集中在外貌上,欺凌现象很常见,由女性之间的竞争而引发的焦虑也十分普遍。(focusdisproportionatel
甲公司2019年取得一项外观设计专利。根据专利法律制度的规定,乙公司未经甲公司许
屋面防水等级可分为()级。A.2 B.3 C.4 D.5
近几年来,我国开始对国内20个制造业行业中820家企业的采购经理进行月度问卷调查
中耳鼓室和外界环境维持压力平衡的结构是A.蜗窗 B.前庭窗 C.咽鼓管
下列评价方式,符合《普通高中生物课程标准(实验)》评价建议的是( )。A.重视
试述胸痹气滞心胸证的症状、治法与代表方剂
共用题干 CharterSchoolsAmericanpublicedu
共用题干 TheExplodingLakesofCameroonWha
重度阻滞Na+通道的药物是A.利多卡因 B.普鲁卡因胺 C.普萘洛尔 D.
最新回复
(
0
)