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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
A function of?
Does "a function of"mean "a reasonable result of"?
Background info:
Adoption of GE Crops by U.S. Farmers
When farmers adopt a new technology, they typically expect beneits like increased farm net returns
time savings (by making farming less effort intensive), or reduced exposure to chemicals. Net bene-
its are a function of farm characteristics and location, output and input prices, existing production
systems, and farmer abilities and preferences.
Judging by the widespread adoption of GE seeds, farmers have beneited from them. U.S. farmers
planted about 169 million acres of GE corn, soybeans, and cotton in 2013 (table 3), accounting for
almost half of the estimated total land used to grow all U.S. crops.
Background info:
Adoption of GE Crops by U.S. Farmers
When farmers adopt a new technology, they typically expect beneits like increased farm net returns
time savings (by making farming less effort intensive), or reduced exposure to chemicals. Net bene-
its are a function of farm characteristics and location, output and input prices, existing production
systems, and farmer abilities and preferences.
Judging by the widespread adoption of GE seeds, farmers have beneited from them. U.S. farmers
planted about 169 million acres of GE corn, soybeans, and cotton in 2013 (table 3), accounting for
almost half of the estimated total land used to grow all U.S. crops.
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are a function of = vary depending on
(Like in mathematics, z = x + 3y - xy means that z is a function of x and y.)
(Like in mathematics, z = x + 3y - xy means that z is a function of x and y.)
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SweetFreedomDoes "a function of"mean "a reasonable result of"?"reasonable" has nothing to do with it, but you're on the right track. "depend on" is another paraphrase of "are a function of", but see GPY's answer so you can appreciate the relationship of this expression to mathematics, where the idea of "function", in this sense, comes from. The idea is that
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