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Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above? (A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes. (B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features. (C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product. (D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them. (E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail
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D is most relevant.
The argument is that an initial group of people bought a video recorder and then grew tired of it after so many months and then stop obtaining new videos. The conclusion is that once everyone who buys this new video recorder (100% market saturation) and then tire of it will ultimately hurt the video production market.
The point of D pokes a hole in this conclusion by showing that author's test group of "initial buyers" may not have the same usage pattern with the video recorder as a "future buyer" might. In a nutshell, D states that the author may be comparing apples to oranges which means that the argument is not conclusive.
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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keyword "clearly" separates the conclusion from the premise. Paraphrase - People get tired of watching the VCR after 6 months of purchase. The sales which is high now will slacken in the coming days. Clearly, the market for VCR is going to face hard times when the market is saturated. "Weaken" means weaken the conclusion. (D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them. -> this tells us that there will ALWAYS be a market for the product and hence weakens the conclusion. smiddy1860 wrote: I'm struggling with what the conclusion is based on the responses above. It looks like the conclusion could be the first sentence, because the writer uses the word apparently, which is his/her opinion/conclusion. If that's the case, isn't the conclusion that early buyers don't want videos to watch on their recorder. It implies that there must be something wrong with the recorder. It doesn't imply that people don't like watching videos, because the demand for players is still high. If you want to weaken this conclusion, which I think means on the contrary, wouldn't C be on the contrary. Since people still want to watch videos, they will need a player. If there aren't very many complaints, then why wouldn't people want the player that the early buyers bought.
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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ritula wrote: Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
(A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes.
(B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features.
(C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product.
(D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
(E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail D is the best If the trade of buseness ...still be a buoyant, businesses distributing videos DOES NOT face hard times.
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I think you interpret the videos they bought the next time is the "same" buy. However nowhere its indicated - they are going to buy same things. Are you assuming this? If yes you are making a lot of assumptions  And lets even if they watch ALL of them, they still get bored and tired. So the demand is "never" ceasing and supply is on the way. The business is going to be rich and richie rich! jay111 wrote:
Sure, but the passage or (D) does not indicate that the early buyers are not bored anymore and so will continue to purchase videos, which will weaken the conclusion. Passage suggests that early buyers are bored and once all buyers are bored, the businesses will fail. (D) explains the buying patern of early buyers but doesn't say why this set of people will buy videos again (after all they are all bored and why would you buy videos if you are bored).
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
30 Mar 2009, 14:18
A is the answer, which weakens the above argument conclusion "businesses distributing videos face hard times"
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
30 Mar 2009, 14:49
If D is true, future buyers of recorders may well buy tapes in greater numbers
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
30 Mar 2009, 15:30
D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
The counter argument is also there which doesn't weaken the argument.
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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asantosh12 wrote: D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
The counter argument is also there which doesn't weaken the argument. It doesn't matter what the customers do after customers buy the video tapes. They can be tired of the tapes, use them repeatedly or discard them. The fact that they will buy more tapes weakens the argument. -pradeep
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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pbanavara wrote: asantosh12 wrote: D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
The counter argument is also there which doesn't weaken the argument. It doesn't matter what the customers do after customers buy the video tapes. They can be tired of the tapes, use them repeatedly or discard them. The fact that they will buy more tapes weakens the argument. -pradeep Agree with pbanavara, D does say that "many early buyers DO interest in obtaining videos to watch on it"
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
30 Mar 2009, 22:07
OA is D
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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ritula wrote: Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above?
(A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes.
(B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features.
(C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product.
(D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
(E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail IMO D)...it is an analogy between novel product and video recorder..........(It tries to say early buyer who are quick to acquire novelties but often tire of them quickly).
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
16 Apr 2009, 15:25
got D
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
16 Apr 2009, 19:08
I think it should be D.
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
18 Feb 2010, 12:08
no doubt it should be D
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
18 Feb 2010, 12:15
My reasoning is the same. Good explaination. Early adopters are different than late buyers. proccountant wrote: D is most relevant.
The argument is that an initial group of people bought a video recorder and then grew tired of it after so many months and then stop obtaining new videos. The conclusion is that once everyone who buys this new video recorder (100% market saturation) and then tire of it will ultimately hurt the video production market.
The point of D pokes a hole in this conclusion by showing that author's test group of "initial buyers" may not have the same usage pattern with the video recorder as a "future buyer" might. In a nutshell, D states that the author may be comparing apples to oranges which means that the argument is not conclusive.
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D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them.
the above statement criticizes the early buyers so this obviously weakens the argument
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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I'm struggling with what the conclusion is based on the responses above. It looks like the conclusion could be the first sentence, because the writer uses the word apparently, which is his/her opinion/conclusion. If that's the case, isn't the conclusion that early buyers don't want videos to watch on their recorder. It implies that there must be something wrong with the recorder. It doesn't imply that people don't like watching videos, because the demand for players is still high. If you want to weaken this conclusion, which I think means on the contrary, wouldn't C be on the contrary. Since people still want to watch videos, they will need a player. If there aren't very many complaints, then why wouldn't people want the player that the early buyers bought.
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
23 Feb 2011, 08:34
Assumtion: Early buyers => tired of product
Late buyers will => tried of product becasue Early buyers = late buyers
D's point: Early buyers =/= (might not) later buyers so the argument falls apart.
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Re: CR: video recorders [#permalink]
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I was lost on this one... not one of the statements looked relevant. Thank you everyone for your input.
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