If women are crowded into elementary education and away from fire fighting, wages in fire fighting will tend to be_____than if women weren't crowded into elementary education. $L O 23.7$ a. Higher. b. Lower.
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$$ \begin{array}{lccc} \hline \text { Highest education } & \text { Total population } & \text { In labor force } & \text { Employed } \\ \text { Didn't finish high } & 27,669 & 12,470 & 11,408 \\ \text { school } & & & \\ \begin{array}{c} \text { High school but no } \\ \text { college } \end{array} & 59,860 & 37,834 & 35,857 \\ \begin{array}{c} \text { Less than bachelor's } \\ \text { degree } \end{array} & 47,556 & 34,439 & 32,977 \\ \text { College graduate } & 51,582 & 40,390 & 39,293 \\ \hline \end{array} $$ Unemployment (1.1) Find the unemployment rate for people with each level of education. How does the unemployment rate change with education?
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For women age 25 and over in the U.S. in $2005,$ the relationship between age and educational level (years of schooling completed) can be summarized as follows: 2 $$ \begin{aligned} \text { average age } \approx 50 \text { years, } & \text { SD } \approx 16 \text { years } \\ \text { average ed. level } \approx 13.2 \text { years, } & \text { SD } \approx 3.0 \text { years, } r \approx-0.20 \end{aligned} $$ True or false, and explain: as you get older, you become less educated. If this statement is false, what accounts for the negative correlation?
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