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At nearby Green Mountain College, which has more business courses and more job counselors than does Mira Vista College, 90 percent of last year’s graduating seniors had job offers from prospective employers. But at Mira Vista College last year, only 70 percent of the seniors who informed the placement office that they would be seeking employment had found full-time jobs within three months after graduation, and only half of these graduates were employed in their major field of study. To help Mira Vista’s graduates find employment, we must offer more courses in business and computer technology and hire additional job counselors to help students with their resumes and interviewing skills. * First, the author assumes that Green Mountain’s comparatively strong Job-placement record is due to the fact that it provided more business courses and job counselors than Mira Vista, rather than some other factors. But this is not necessarily the case. Perhaps Green Mountain students are exceptionally bright or resourceful to begin with. Or perhaps the quality of instruction and job counseling at Green Mountain is exceptionally high. Moreover, perhaps Green Mountain provides more business courses and job counselors than Mira Vista simply because Green Mountain is a larger school with more students… * Another problem with the argument is that the statistics comparing job placement rates might be distorted in one or more respects. First, the author fails to indicate the percentage of Green Mountain graduates who find employment in their major fields of study. Second, the author ignores the possibility that the time parameters defining the two school’s job placement rates differ. It is entirely possible that Green Mountain’s record was based on a longer period of time, thereby distorting the comparative success of the schools in helping their recent graduates find jobs. * * The cited statistics about Mira Vista’s job placement record might be unreliable in other respects as wel