Cost of Childcare (discussion thread)

When someone has answered A... they have made an assumption. The assumption is that childcare costs £2.50 per hour, per child.

That isn't in fact what the question said. It said that childcare costs From £2.50 per hour, per child.

Do you spot the difference?

So far there have been 4 answers given to the original question. All 4 picked answer A. With luck, if enough people answer the question, we will notice a trend (4 alas isn't really enough to determine a trend, but even so all the answers so far are the same - option A).

We are all bombarded with marketing messages every day. Therefore our brains have learnt to process those messages quickly to determine if we want to find out more about the marketing message (offer, product, service etc), or if we feel it is not relevant to us or is just junk.

Thus it was important that you did not spend very long thinking about the question... what was wanted was that gut/instant reaction. Once your brain thinks about it... it raises questions, as there is insignificant information provided by the question for you to be able to give an answer.

So to start the discussion...

• The Question - Which of the following do you feel is better? A.) From £2.50 per hour (per child) B.) £10 per hour (per family) Please answer A or B along with how many children you have in your family... eg. A1, A3, B5 etc.
• End of Question -

First thing - did you actually read the question? Do you remember taking exams at school? Sometimes on an exam paper, there are questions which rely on being read correctly.
In this case, the question does not present sufficient information such that it can be answered. It lacks detail. It is the sort of thing that encourages someone to find out more.

As such there is no correct answer to the question, though answer C is the best: C.) Insufficient information to answer the question