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Columnist: Thomas's book "Spirited" has exercised [#permalink] New post 22 Nov 2012, 02:35
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Columnist: Thomas's book "Spirited" has exercised much influence on a great numbers of this newspaper's readers. 2000 readers were surveyed and asked to name the book that had influence on their life. The book chosen most was the "Secret" and "Spirited" was second.

Which of the following question will be most useful in evaluating the columnist's argument?

A. How many people read the columnist’s newspaper?
B. How many books had each person surveyed read?
C. How many people chose books other than "Spirited"?
D. How many of those surveyed had actually read the books they chose?
E. How many books by Thomas other than "Spirited" were chosen?
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Re: Columnist: Thomas's book "Spirited" has exercised [#permalink] New post 23 Nov 2012, 16:57
The "spirited" had much influence on readers, yet it ranked 2nd among people polled for the book that had most
influence on them. The "Secret" came 1st.

To establish how reliable the result is, wouldn't it be necessary to confirm whether the people asked actually
would have voted otherwise? This is my reason for D, though wrong.
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Re: Columnist: Thomas's book "Spirited" has exercised [#permalink] New post 24 Nov 2012, 00:22
gmatbull wrote:
The "spirited" had much influence on readers, yet it ranked 2nd among people polled for the book that had most
influence on them. The "Secret" came 1st.

To establish how reliable the result is, wouldn't it be necessary to confirm whether the people asked actually
would have voted otherwise? This is my reason for D, though wrong.


I also picked the choice you picked and went with the same reasoning as yours.
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Re: Columnist: Thomas's book "Spirited" has exercised [#permalink] New post 25 Nov 2012, 10:20
Vineetk wrote:
gmatbull wrote:
The "spirited" had much influence on readers, yet it ranked 2nd among people polled for the book that had most
influence on them. The "Secret" came 1st.

To establish how reliable the result is, wouldn't it be necessary to confirm whether the people asked actually
would have voted otherwise? This is my reason for D, though wrong.


I also picked the choice you picked and went with the same reasoning as yours.


It's C.

Imagine that among the 2,000 readers, 1,995 picked "Secret", 3 picked "Spirited", and 2 a third book.

Of course, "secret" is ranked as second, but it wouldn't had much influence on readers.
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