Many governments that regularly transfer money to individuals-to provide
supplemental incomes for senior citizens, for example-have long done so
electronically, but other countries typically have distributed physical money
and have only recently developed electronic transfer infrastructure.
Researchers studied the introduction of an electronic transfer system in
one such location and found that recipients of electronic transfers
consumed a different array of foods than recipients of physical transfers of
the same amount did. One potential explanation for this result is that
individuals conceive of and allocate funds in physical money differently
than they conceive of and allocate funds in electronic form.
Which finding from the study, if true, would most directly weaken the
potential explanation?
Choose 1 answer:
B
Recipients of electronic transfers typically spent their funds at a
slower rate than recipients of physical transfers did.
Some recipients of physical transfers received small amounts of
money relatively frequently, while others received large amounts