Read this paragraph:
hierarchies - the ranking of human beings from highest to
lowest - have always provoked irrational attitudes in
people. every entry-level employee knows that her
company's management ranks are full of undeserving
buffoons who could never cut it among the working
classes. as soon as that employee becomes a manager,
however, she suddenly feels that her subordinates are
inferior simpletons.
what is most clearly the central idea of the paragraph?
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a. hierarchical thinking is rarely accurate.
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b. companies are organized unfairly.
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c. people tend to be irrational.
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d. humans have always lived in hierarchies.

Some bias is inevitable. why? because it's impossible to cover everything in a completely balanced way! because networks only run stories that will attract viewers and listeners because only certain types of stories will make money because there are no consequences for presenting a blased story

Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.