Shannon is home from college and helping her younger brother, Mike, with his grade 1 biology homework. He needs to classify a list of words into living and nonliving things. Given their sibling rivalry, they decide to have a small competition. They must each classify the list as quickly as possible. If they perform as is predicted in the article "Don't know much Biology", who would complete this task more accurately?
A)
Mike would be best because children are natural-born taxonomists and greater interaction with the world only confuses this innate ability.
B)
Shannon would be better than her brother only if she was currently taking a biology class.
C)
Mike would win if the list contained more living than nonliving things.
D)
Shannon would be best regardless of the contents of the list.
Answer: D