True or false: It is preferable to write: List dogs = new ArrayList(); instead of List dogs = new ArrayList(); because raw types enable developers to avoid needless verbiage.

Using generic types (List) is strongly preferable over raw types (List). Raw types disable type checking, allowing runtime ClassCastException errors that generics would catch at compile-time. The 'verbiage' of generic types provides type safety - it's not needless. Joshua Bloch's Effective Java explicitly advises against raw types.