Analyst: Creative professionals, such as clothing designers, graphic designers, and decorators, often have very poor managerial skills and do not succeed when they try to run their own businesses. In fact, most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar professional who does not work in a creative field. Generally, creative talent and business acumen rarely go hand in hand.

If the analyst's argument is taken as true, which of the following statements can properly be concluded?

A) No successful business people are creative.
B) Some creative types are not less skilled at business than is the average white-collar worker who is not creative.
C) Creativity precludes success in business.
D) Any white-collar worker who is not creative is more successful in business than any creative professional.
E) Business is not a creative endeavor.

I go for D

If it were a creative endeavor, the creative professional would be good at it, but they are not

Analyst: Creative professionals, such as clothing designers, graphic designers, and decorators, often have very poor managerial skills and do not succeed when they try to run their own businesses. In fact, most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar professional who does not work in a creative field. Generally, creative talent and business acumen rarely go hand in hand.

If the analyst's argument is taken as true, which of the following statements can properly be concluded?

1. No successful businesspeople are creative.
2. Some creative types are not less skilled at business than is the average white-collar worker who is not creative.
3. Creativity precludes success in business.
Analyst: Creative professionals, such as clothing designers, graphic designers, and decorators, often have very poor managerial skills and do not succeed when they try to run their own businesses. In fact, most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar professional who does not work in a creative field. Generally, creative talent and business acumen rarely go hand in hand.

If the analyst's argument is taken as true, which of the following statements can properly be concluded?

1. No successful businesspeople are creative.
2. Some creative types are not less skilled at business than is the average white-collar worker who is not creative.
3 Creativity precludes success in business.
4 Any white-collar worker who is not creative is more successful in business than any creative professional.
5 Business is not a creative endeavor.

^5 is out of scope. We are talking about people not business in general

I concur with 2

I'd go with B.

"most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar professional"... => some of the creative types are not less skilled

Rest of the options reads a bit too strong for me. What is the OA?

OA is B ..but please help me out to understand the difference the difference between the 2 questions

1) What is inference drawn from the argument
2) What is the conclusion drawn from the argument.

As per my understanding Option B is inferred from the argument and is not the main conclusion drawn from the passage..

HELP URGENTLY

I agree with you to some extent. There is a subtle difference between 'inference(must be true)' and conclusion: the later should encompass the complete argument and the former can be a small portion (premise) of the argument that is 'always' true.

Here, B is correct, although, it does not seem to be the actual conclusion. However, no other choice can be concluded either. So B is the only option left.

E, CANNOT be concluded for sure.

Analyst: Creative professionals, such as clothing designers, graphic designers, and decorators, often have very poor managerial skills and do not succeed when they try to run their own businesses. In fact, most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar professional who does not work in a creative field. Generally, creative talent and business acumen rarely go hand in hand.

If the analyst's argument is taken as true, which of the following statements can properly be concluded?

(A)No successful businesspeople are creative.
(B)Some creative types are not less skilled at business than is the average white-collar worker who is not creative.
(C)Creativity precludes success in business.
(D)Any white-collar worker who is not creative is more successful in business than any creative professional.
(E)Business is not a creative endeavor.

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