Your City Government Is Currently Hiring People to Work on Each

Your city government is currently hiring people to work on each of the four projects below. If they can hire only one sociologist, which job should they hire the sociologist to do?

A) Counting how many migratory birds fly through the city during a period of time in order to understand how a new high-rise building might impact their migration patterns
B) Taking a census of how many youth are loitering in the public parks each day in order to assess if there is a need for a youth drop-in center
C) Measuring what percent of the content of the city's garbage is recyclable in order to recommend a new system of sorting recyclables from trash
D) Measuring how much litter is left in the city's central park each day in order to determine the correct number of trash cans that should be placed in the park