Civic response logic: Determine the relationship between Statements I and II — 'Police recently apprehended a group of house breakers' and 'Local citizens have started night vigil in the area' — classifying them as cause, effect, or outcomes of shared antecedents.
Verbal Reasoning
Cause and Effect
Difficulty: Medium
Choose an option
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AStatement I is the cause and statement II is its effect
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BStatement II is the cause and statement I is its effect
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CBoth the statements I and II are independent causes
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DBoth the statements I and II are effects of independent causes
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EBoth the statements I and II are effects of some common cause
Answer
Correct Answer: Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause
Explanation
Given data
- I: Police caught house breakers.
- II: Citizens initiated night vigil.
Concept/Approach
Both actions typically respond to an underlying rise in theft/burglary incidents. We check for a common precipitating cause.
Step-by-step evaluation
1) Increased break-ins → (a) police enforcement culminating in arrests, and (b) community vigilance.2) The arrest itself would more likely reduce, not trigger, vigil; hence I is not a cause of II.3) Treat both as effects of the same underlying spike in crime.Verification/Alternative
Temporal order supports a prior surge in crime motivating both outcomes.
Common pitfalls
- Assuming arrests cause vigil; causality more plausibly flows from crime rates.
Final AnswerBoth the statements I and II are effects of some common cause.