(B) Increased public awareness of a disease usually leads to an increase in reported instances of the disease.
(C) An obscure disease may sometimes receive a great deal of publicity even though doctors have begun to suspect that the disease no longer exists.
(D) The Center for Disease Control typically concerns itself only with diseases that are of public importance.
(E) It is unusual for the reported instances of a disease to decline sharply after a long period of stability.
24. Husbands of wage-earning women spend, on the average, the same amount of time on housework as do husbands of women who do not earn wages: eleven hours per week.
Husbands of wage-earning women perform household tasks on more occasions than do husbands of women who do not earn wages.
If the statements above are true, which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn?
(A) The average time spent per occasion of performing individual household tasks is less for husbands of wage-earning women than it is for husbands of women who do not earn wages.
(B) Husbands of wage-earning women report a higher rate of participation in household tasks than is actually the case, because they overestimate the number of times they do housework.
(C) On the average, husbands of wage-earning women allocate a little more time to housework per month than do husbands of women who do not earn wages.
(D) There is no difference in the patterns of time spent on household tasks by husbands of wage-earning women and by husbands of women who do not earn wages.
(E) Husbands of wage-earning women participate more often in tasks that are completed in a short time than they do in tasks that take a long time to complete.