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q)) The recording industry is fighting a losing battle: it simply does not have the resources to prosecute all of the individuals who illegally download music from the Internet. Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited, the actions of the recording industry will have a minimal impact on the number of people who illegally download music. The answer to which of the following questions would best help evaluate the accuracy of the conclusion above? a) Will recording industry lawyers dedicate the majority of their time to prosecuting those who illegally download music? b)) Is a small minority of individuals responsible for the majority of illegal song downloads? c))Do many individuals who illegally download songs share their music files with other Internet users? d))Will new Internet security technology permit the recording industry to more quickly and easily identify individuals who illegally download music? e)) Will the threat of prosecution alter the behavior of those who illegally download music?
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Re: pls explain.....i am all messed up...!! [#permalink]
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E for me... For evaluate the conclusion questions follow the approach given by the CR bible... Scan the options first... A and D are out because they are out of scope.... Now for the remaining choices, take a yes and no as the answer to the question and check whether " answer yes" is strengthening the conclusion and "Answer No" is weakening the conclusion or vice versa... We can eliminate B and C through the above process... For E.. Answer Yes: It will alter the behaviour of the individuals Answer No: It will not alter the behavior of the individuals Yes weakens the conclusion and No strengthens the conclusion... Thus this is our option.... 
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Re: pls explain.....i am all messed up...!! [#permalink]
05 Jun 2011, 07:21
Good explanation nimrod.
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Re: pls explain.....i am all messed up...!! [#permalink]
06 Jun 2011, 01:21
the argument concentrates on the impact of such action. Between C and E. C gives a probable reason why only small number of people will be charged for such a crime.However, provides no support to the impact. E gives a clear indication on the impact by using variance test here. E it is.
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Re: pls explain.....i am all messed up...!! [#permalink]
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Really good explaination
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Re: pls explain.....i am all messed up...!! [#permalink]
19 Sep 2011, 02:24
Tough one. Marked A.
I think the variance test will really come in handy here.
Jai CR bible.
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Re: pls explain.....i am all messed up...!! [#permalink]
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punyadeep wrote: q)) The recording industry is fighting a losing battle: it simply does not have the resources to prosecute all of the individuals who illegally download music from the Internet. Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited, the actions of the recording industry will have a minimal impact on the number of people who illegally download music.
The answer to which of the following questions would best help evaluate the accuracy of the conclusion above?
a) Will recording industry lawyers dedicate the majority of their time to prosecuting those who illegally download music?
b)) Is a small minority of individuals responsible for the majority of illegal song downloads?
c))Do many individuals who illegally download songs share their music files with other Internet users?
d))Will new Internet security technology permit the recording industry to more quickly and easily identify individuals who illegally download music?
e)) Will the threat of prosecution alter the behavior of those who illegally download music? Good one. I approached this question by questioning the conclusion. If E were true, then the actions of the recording industry will have a <b>significant</b> impact on the number of people who illegally download music. So, I chose E.
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I could quickly narrow down to B and E. The rest are all out of scope. A bit of thinking helped me choose E of the two. Found this one quite straight forward.
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Can anyone give me a profound reason to eliminate B. I reduced the options to B and E but I feel E has only a slight edge over B.
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Marcab wrote: Can anyone give me a profound reason to eliminate B.
I reduced the options to B and E but I feel E has only a slight edge over B. Lets see B and E: "Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited, the actions of the recording industry will have a minimal impact on the number of people who illegally download music." The answer to which of the following questions would best help evaluate the accuracy of the conclusion above? b)) Is a small minority of individuals responsible for the majority of illegal song downloads? If only a minority of individuals are responsible for the majority of downloads or if a majority of individuals are responsible for downloads, knowing it would not help evaluate the impact of the action on those who are not charged. Ok 10 out of 1000 (minority responsible) are prosecuted or 10 out of 100000 (majority responsible) are prosecuted - but do we know impact on everyone else? no. e)) Will the threat of prosecution alter the behavior of those who illegally download music? If we know that threat of prosecution can or can not change behaviour of others, we would know whther taking such an action would help or not.
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Hii vips. Thanks for the reply. If I say that only 10 persons illegally download music and are responsible for the majority of illegal song downloads, then don't you think that punishing these 10 persons will have an immense impact on the illegal downloading. Moreover, if my answer to B is No i.e there is a majority of individuals responsible for illegal downloading, then punishing just a few of them will have a minimal impact. Am i missing something?
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Marcab wrote: Hii vips.
Thanks for the reply.
If I say that only 10 persons illegally download music and are responsible for the majority of illegal song downloads, then don't you think that punishing these 10 persons will have an immense impact on the illegal downloading. Moreover, if my answer to B is No i.e there is a majority of individuals responsible for illegal downloading, then punishing just a few of them will have a minimal impact.
Am i missing something? Ha ha.. you actually created a case where you are going to punish 'all' responsible. this is surely going to have impact. But would you be able to know so, if you know that 5% of people in world download music illegaly or 30% do?
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"Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited", since the question itself says that these people will be punished, hence I can make that assertion or can't I?
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Marcab wrote: "Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited", since the question itself says that these people will be punished, hence I can make that assertion or can't I? Number of people who are charged are limited... probably only 5-10 are getting punished and rest are not. This further supports the assertion made in previous posts. Hope it helps.
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Vips0000 wrote: Marcab wrote: "Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited", since the question itself says that these people will be punished, hence I can make that assertion or can't I? Number of people who are charged are limited... probably only 5-10 are getting punished and rest are not. This further supports the assertion made in previous posts. Hope it helps. B asks whether there is a small minority of individual responsible for the majority of illegal songs download. Now for evaluation, we answer the question either in terms of yes or no and then check whether these contrasting answers do really make an impact. What I am saying is that if the answer is yes, ie there is a small minority of individuals responsible for majority of illegal downloads, and as per the stimulus, these people are charged with crime. Then it will make an impact. But if the people who are responsible for majority of illegal downloads are many, and if only very few are charged then certainly there will be no impact. Any CR expert, please help me resolve this doubt.
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Hi - The question is about the number of PEOPLE not the number of SONGS downloaded. B suggests that by targetting a few people you could affect the number of SONGS dowloaded. But not whether you could affect the number of PEOPLE downloading. In other terms, it's like saying most thieves only steal one thing and a few thieves steal lots. By arresting the thieves who steal a lot you can reduce a lot the number of crimes, but still the majority of people who have commited at least one crime are still free....
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Hii plumber250. Consider an example: Let there be only 50 downloaders who download majority of illegal music. If you punish 40 out of those, 10 downloaders remain. Hence illegal downloading can be reduced to a huge extent. Now let there be 50,000 downloaders but only 40 of them are punished. Illegal downloading still persists. That's my point.
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Hi, With your example you are correct. However that is not what B is offering to tell us. B simply tells us whether the quantity of dowloading is divided equally amongst every downloader or it is skewed. It tells us nothing about the total number. So (to use small numbers) it would tell us amongst 10 dowloaders if the distribution is more like: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 20, 22 or 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 But that doesn't matter if the question is asking about the number of downloaders, in both situations there are 10. And to arrest (say) 2 in either situation still leaves 8 out there
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Marcab wrote: Vips0000 wrote: Marcab wrote: "Because the number of individuals who will be charged with a crime is so limited", since the question itself says that these people will be punished, hence I can make that assertion or can't I? Number of people who are charged are limited... probably only 5-10 are getting punished and rest are not. This further supports the assertion made in previous posts. Hope it helps. B asks whether there is a small minority of individual responsible for the majority of illegal songs download. Now for evaluation, we answer the question either in terms of yes or no and then check whether these contrasting answers do really make an impact. What I am saying is that if the answer is yes, ie there is a small minority of individuals responsible for majority of illegal downloads, and as per the stimulus, these people are charged with crime. Then it will make an impact. But if the people who are responsible for majority of illegal downloads are many, and if only very few are charged then certainly there will be no impact. Any CR expert, please help me resolve this doubt. This is from where it was started.. you can re-read the posts or mark B instead
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