What is Scrooge’s “business” according to his interaction with the men? Why does he feel this way

Ebenezer Scrooge's business is to take care of his own establishment and thus, refused to donate/ contribute any to the charity.

He feels this way because he thinks that it is not one's business to interfere in another's business.

Explanation:

Charles Dickens's play "A Christmas Carol," tells the story of the protagonist Ebenezer Scrooge and his 'hatred' of the Christmas festival. But it was during this time of the year that he got 'inspired' by the ghost of his late partner c um friend Marley, teaching him a life lesson that changed Scrooge for the better.

When the two gentlemen came to visit the workplace of Scrooge expecting some donation for charity, Scrooge refused to give a single penny. According to him, the suffering of the people and their need is none of his business. He exclaims "I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." Rather, his business is to take care of his company, which "occupies [him] constantly" and thus, it's not his business to "not to interfere with other people’s".

he felt this way because he thinks that it is "unfair" and unbecoming to get involved in someone's business.

1. the question asks the most appropriate, which seems to rule out "all of the above." your choice appears to be the correct one.

2. the protocol described is good for identifying correlation, but not cause and effect. for cause/effect, you need to devise a protocol that will assign the treatment (or not) to groups that have essentially the same "demographics" with respect to all the other variables. your choice regarding control group seems appropriate. random assignment of treatment (choice d) may be appropriate also. (i think you can argue that b and d are just different descriptions of the same method.)

3. d will randomize the birds, but may not guarantee there are 10 in each group. e will do both, so seems the better choice.

comment on question 2

based on the problem statement, it seems clear that confident, attentive drivers are more likely to use daytime running lights. so, the protocol might need to be devised in such a way that the lights would be turned on or off without the driver's knowledge. (an attentive driver will figure it out.) assigning a confident, attentive driver to a group required to drive without running lights might mess with his/her confidence and attentiveness. you don't want your experiment to do that. (nor do you want the experiment to subject a driver to greater risk of accident as a consequence of driving without running lights.) experiments involving human safety are always problematic.

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