The government is right to introduce a ban on smoking in public places. Cut-price alcohol has increased the demand for alcohol among teenagers 2. These articles may be wholly or partially lacking in objectivity.Ĩ. Their articles carry value judgements they are trying to persuade you of the particular merits or demerits of a policy decision.Often, the person writing an article has a particular argument to make and will include subjective statements about what ought to be or what should be happening.Whenever you are reading articles on current affairs it is important to be able to distinguish between objective and subjective statements.A normative statement cannot be tested to see if it is true or false. A normative statement is a value judgement or personal opinion with which others may disagree.‘The moon is made of green cheese’ is a positive statement even though we know it is completely false.
A positive statement is a statement that can be tested against evidence to see whether it is true or false.‘The state pension should be cut in half because pensioners are parasites on society.’.‘lf the state pension is cut in half, 100,000 pensioners will die of hypothermia in a cold winter.‘.Understand the difference between a positive and normative statement.vs Read the material and then answer the questions. AS Economics Positive and Normative StatementsĢ. Here is a summary of the contents of the powerpoint which moves from reviewing opportunity cost to a detailed lesson on the positive/normative distinction.ġ.
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