Question

Consider the question of whether high school graduates are more likely to attend college if at least one of their parents went to college. Write a sentence about how one might approach this question through each of the following four ways of knowing:

direct observation
trust in experts
faith
consensus

Answer 1

Direct observation of high school graduates in America shows that they are more likely to attend college if at least one of their parents went to college.

Experts say that high school graduates are more likely to attend college if at least one of their parents went to college.

Families in which one parent went to college typically have faith that their children will also attend college after graduating from high school.

The consensus among educators at the conference was that high school graduates are more likely to attend college if at least one of their parents went to college.