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Generally scientists enter their field with the goal of [#permalink] New post 29 Oct 2009, 17:27
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151. Generally scientists enter their field with the goal of doing important new research and accept as their
colleagues those with similar motivation. Therefore, when any scientist wins renown as an expounder of science
to general audiences, most other scientists conclude that this popularizer should no longer be regarded as a true
colleague.
The explanation offered above for the low esteem in which scientific popularizers are held by research
scientists assumes that
(A) serious scientific research is not a solitary activity, but relies on active cooperation among a group of
colleagues
(B) research scientists tend not to regard as colleagues those scientists whose renown they envy
(C) a scientist can become a famous popularizer without having completed any important research
(D) research scientists believe that those who are well known as popularizers of science are not motivated
to do important new research
(E) no important new research can be accessible to or accurately assessed by those who are not
themselves scientists
[Reveal] Spoiler:
d
what is wrong with c?
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Re: 151. Generally scientists enter their field with the goal of [#permalink] New post 01 Nov 2009, 03:34
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Generally scientists enter their field with the goal of doing important new research and accept as their
colleagues those with similar motivation. Therefore, when any scientist wins renown as an expounder of science
to general audiences, most other scientists conclude that this popularizer should no longer be regarded as a true
colleague.

1) Scientists accept = people with equal motivation
2) Scientists do not accept = people who win acclaim or Popularizers

From 1) and 2)

Popularizers do not have the motivation

Hence clearly D

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Re: cr [#permalink] New post 29 Oct 2009, 18:07
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151. Generally scientists enter their field with the goal of doing important new research and accept as their
colleagues those with similar motivation. Therefore, when any scientist wins renown as an expounder of science
to general audiences, most other scientists conclude that this popularizer should no longer be regarded as a true
colleague.
The explanation offered above for the low esteem in which scientific popularizers are held by research
scientists assumes that
(A) serious scientific research is not a solitary activity, but relies on active cooperation among a group of
colleagues
(B) research scientists tend not to regard as colleagues those scientists whose renown they envy
(C) a scientist can become a famous popularizer without having completed any important research
(D) research scientists believe that those who are well known as popularizers of science are not motivated
to do important new research
(E) no important new research can be accessible to or accurately assessed by those who are not
themselves scientists
[Reveal] Spoiler:
d
what is wrong with c?


The premise is that scientists take as their colleague, only the scientists who have motivation for doing important new research.

Conclusion is popular scientists no longer can be considered as colleague.

(D) Provides the missing link... that those well known are not motivated for doing imp new reasearch. (C) maybe a reason for that, but does nothing to this missing link or Assumption. Hence D wins
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Re: cr [#permalink] New post 29 Oct 2009, 22:47
C says scientists 'can' become famous without doing any important research - this doesnt mean that everyone who become a popularizer didn't do important research.
D applies to all such people. Hence D is the answer.
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