By referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as "purely programmatic" (line 49) in nature, the author mo...

Ravi on June 29 at 07:51PM

@Marianne-Xiong,

Great question. You're right; (C) doesn't say anything about how many
readers returned the survey. However, this doesn't matter because (C)
tells us something even more important: the survey accurately reflects
the feelings of the readership as a whole. The real reason we'd care
about how many survey readers returned the survey would be to see how
closely the survey's population represents the readership as a whole.
(C) doesn't tell us how many readers returned the survey, but it
assures us that the survey's results mirror the readership's
preferences, and this is what really matters to us.

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