Every week, the programming office at an FM radio station reviewed unsolicited letters from listeners who were expressing comments on the station’s programs. One week, the station received 50 letters with favorable comments about the station’s news reporting and music selection and 10 letters with unfavorable comments on the station’s new movie review segment of the evening program. Faced with this information, the programming director assumed that if some listeners did not like the movie review segment, then there must be other listeners who did like it. Therefore, he decided to continue the movie review segment of the evening program.
Which on e of the following identifies a problem with the programming director’s decision process?
(A) He failed to recognize that people are more likely to write letters of criticism than of praise.
(B) He could not properly infer from the fact that some listeners did not like the movie review segment that some others did.
(C) He failed to take into consideration the discrepancy in numbers between favorable and unfavorable letters received.
(D) He failed to take into account the relation existing between the movie review segment and the news.
(E) He did not wait until he received at least 50 letters with unfavorable comments about the movie review segment before making his decision.

B says that "He could not properly infer from the fact that some listeners did not like the movie review segment that some others did". "Some others did" means we are assuming that some people really liked movie review. Even the director is assuming that. Is that assumption right?

I am not happy with any option. If you force me to choose one, I would go with plain C.

B

A goes right along with his thinking. He assumed that he did receive more letters because people were happy with the programming.

It should be between A and C.

Going for A.

the director assumed that if some listeners did not like the movie review segment, then there must be other listeners who did like it.so he went ahead with the movie review.

and if there is a problem with this decision(as what the qus asks) then it must be that the director was not able to take the right decision based on what facts lay ahead of him.

so seems like that choice B
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if the director thought that people will write more about criticism than praise and he got 10 letters of criticism for movie review and none praising it,then he must think that movie review is not going well with the listeners and he shuld discontinue that.

so here goes choice A.
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i'm confused between the two.??

Agree to B

My answer is 'A'.

The director did not receive any letter praising the program, instead received criticism.

He did not compare the fact that the news program received praise from listners because they liked the program. But in case Movie review program, director was comparing the numbers. It could be the fact that number of listners of Movie program is less than number of listners of News program.