Scholars have noted each of the following elements that explain the importance of conferences EXCEPT: a. The conference is the crucial unit in shaping and regulating intercollegiate athletics because it can have more impact on shaping athletic policies than the NCAA does.
b. Conferences demand that schools and their leaders pay more attention to conference issues than to those of national governing bodies like the NCAA.
c. The conference is the locus where a small group of institutions in voluntary association agree to work together, to compete while showing some sign of mutual respect and comparable academic standards.
d. Conferences allow schools with similar concerns to form leagues with rules that operationalize their common philosophy and put their athletes and coaches in social circumstances where they will be dealing with people and similar expectations and constraints.

b.

Explanation:

Conferences demand that schools and their leaders pay more attention to conference issues than to those of national governing bodies like the NCAA. Issues need to be chosen by its importance to the vast majority. If the issue that is affecting the vast majority of the population revolves around external factors such as those of a national governing body then those are the issues that the conference should revolve around. The conference needs to adapt to what is most important always.

answer: a. the kind of population living in your neighbourhood.

the census explorer data tool by the us census bureau allows the user to zoom in on any neighbourhood within the united states and find the kind of people residing in that by race and age.  

the tool needs to needs to be used twice – once in order to find what type of people reside in a neighbourhood, and then to see the age groups of the people in the same neighbourhood.