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Sorry for bother you guys..but can someone repond my above query. I picked option A.

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I'm considering "workplace harassment" and "racial harassment" two different thing. I'm saying that attorney compaign was to address "workplace harassment" but the harassment reports tripled and it was becasue of "racial harassment". This weakens the conclusion.

Does it makes sense?

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Concerned about various forms of workplace harassment, a city attorney’s office instituted a publicity campaign last year encouraging victims of such harassment to come forward and file reports of the harassment. During the year following the inception of the publicity campaign, the frequency of harassment reports filed with the city attorney’s office tripled. The publicity campaign has therefore been successful, in that it has inspired more victims of workplace harassment to pursue their complaints.

Which of the following most seriously weakens the conclusion of the passage above?
(A)The increase in harassment complaints has consisted almost exclusively of additional complaints of racial harassment; complaints of other varieties of harassment have not increased significantly.
(B)Although the number of complaints has tripled, the number of complaints that have resulted in successful prosecutions or civil penalties for the harassers has not increased significantly.
(C)Many individuals who have brought complaints within the past year were previously unaware that the behavior to which they had been subjected was regarded legally as harassment.¬
(D)The publicity campaign has emphasized the fact that there will be no legal reprisals or other negative consequences for complainants whose complaints are deemed false or invalid.
(E)The city attorney’s office originally instituted the campaign in response to falling numbers of workplace harassment complaints.

Need explanation...........why ans is d

Hi,

Let's first understand the argument.

Premises:

1. Attorney instituted a campaign to encourage victims to report incidents of harassment.
2. Next year, the number of harassment reports tripled

Conclusion: Campaign successful - because it has inspired more victims of workplace harassment to pursue their complaints (pay attention to the underlined word. It'll come in handy in understanding choice D)

Let's look at Option D:

(D)The publicity campaign has emphasized the fact that there will be no legal reprisals or other negative consequences for complainants whose complaints are deemed false or invalid. - Read the underlined parts carefully. What do they lead to? Will it make more people to file frivolous (false) harassment complaints? If yes, then the tripling of harassment reports doesn't necessarily mean that more victims are inspired to pursue their complaints; rather, it could mean that many more false complaints are being filed since people are not afraid anymore of the implications of filing false complaints. Thus, this weakens the conclusion.

Hope this helps

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But the increase did not come from victims coming forward to complain about the cases. The increase came from something else (another cause) which is people knowing that there wont be and repercussions thereby harassing whoever they want.

X causes Y, but answer choice D says Z causes Y

I do have a question.
Why Not option C is correct.
"Many individuals who have brought complaints within the past year were previously unaware that the behavior to which they had been subjected was regarded legally as harassment."

From the premise : "a publicity campaign last year encouraging victims of such harassment to come forward and file reports of the harassment."

It nowhere tells that the campaign was meant to know whether a behavior is harassment or not. But it just encouraged people to file such cases.
Now C gives an alternative reason. People are now aware of what a harassment behavior is( not from this campaign..may be from some other campaigns)...and started filling complaints. So to conclude this campaign was successful is wrong.

Perfectly weakening...

Please correct my thinking if i m wrong:)
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