Upward Mobility Through Sport? D. STANLEY EITZEN

Upward Mobility Through Sport? D. STANLEY EITZEN
-The sports sociologist Harry Edwards has said that becoming a successful professional athlete is less likely than getting struck by lightning. According to Eitzen, Edwards is:

A) deliberately wrong because Edwards is a vocal critic of professional sports
B) comparing apples and oranges. Lightning strikes are random events; sport success is based entirely on human effort
C) using faulty data; Eitzen's data shows that Edwards's figures underestimate sport success by at least half
D) probably right
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