IanStewart wrote:
I agree completely with Chris - this is a really bad question. Not only is the writing awful, but the question makes no logical sense. The argument itself says "the company’s workers are mean-spirited and egotistical". If that's stated in the stem of a real GMAT question, then that is a *premise*. It cannot be wrong. So it makes no difference if the company employs 15 people or 150,000 people -- the question has told us that it is an absolutely true fact that the employees of this company are "mean-spirited and egotistical", no matter how many of them there are. So B is not the correct answer here.
The logical problem with the argument, if we accept its premises to be true, is that it draws a conclusion about *all* companies from this one company. So we should be looking for an answer choice which suggests a reason why this one company might be different from other companies. None of the answers really do that, but the only one I could even tenuously justify is A -- perhaps this company differs from others because it has a worse work environment. But the question is just so badly written to begin with that it's a pointless exercise trying to find a good answer.
Hi
IanStewart - while I agree this is a bad question. I was curious on a couple of points
(1) The argument isn't :
high paying companies CAUSE
unfriendly employees.Instead the argument is :
high paying companies HAVE unfriendly employees.Thus in order to weaken this : we need something that says :
Not all high paying companies HAVE
unfriendly employees.Correct ?
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(2) Is (A) a
strengthener ? I don't think (A) is a
strengthener unless we assume
high paying companies have a
specific type of work environment that brings out the worst in people
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(3) Same on E ? (E) is only a
strengthener if we assume
Egotistical workers often work in
high paying companies