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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
 28 May 2009, 22:14
Evience which will show that new people have not contributed will support the argument
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
28 May 2009, 22:32
Hades wrote: [aligntable=][/aligntable]
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This could mean that all the donations came from unsolicited offers, and every single person they contacted declined (goes against insufficient harvesting efforts).
Booya but we are concerned with the FUNDRAISERS success rate. In C the donations had nothing to do with the fundraisers
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
28 May 2009, 23:08
bigtreezl wrote: Hades wrote: [aligntable=][/aligntable]
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This could mean that all the donations came from unsolicited offers, and every single person they contacted declined (goes against insufficient harvesting efforts).
Booya but we are concerned with the FUNDRAISERS success rate. In C the donations had nothing to do with the fundraisers Yes and the fundraisers success correlates directly to what proportion the fresh donors comprise of. And keep in mind I negated C-- I took the opposite to see if it could weaken it. (Remember Strengthen & Weaken are very close).
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
29 May 2009, 00:04
whats the OA?
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
30 May 2009, 08:13
IMO C is the best choice..
reason same as that explained by Hades
Pls post the OA
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
30 May 2009, 10:22
The answer is C. - "This year most of the donations that came to Smithtown University from people who had previously donated to it were made without the university’s fund-raisers having made any contact with the donors."
The bold portion clearly conveys that fund-raisers did poor canvassing. A, B, D & E weaken the conclusion in the argument.
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
31 May 2009, 23:48
OA plz
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
01 Jun 2009, 01:54
IMO C. What is the OA?
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
01 Jun 2009, 10:10
I thought A was out of scope, but felt that the answer couldnt have been C. Tough one
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
25 Mar 2010, 07:14
I pick C, not great and slightly out of scope. However, it's the only answer that actually provides support or (strengthens) the author's point of view.
A doesn't seem to have any relevant information to stengthen the argument.
(A) Smithtown University’s fund-raisers were successful in their contacts with potential donors who had never given before about as frequently as were fund-raisers for other universities in their contacts with such people. ~ basically, it's saying that the efforts to contact potential donors was about equal to that of other universities. Who cares if the effort is equal to another university/ What we would need to know to make this relevant is the actual effect of the other University so we have something to compare.
Maybe this is an experimental question?
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
25 Mar 2010, 07:17
no, i really dont think its A (A) it says that S Uni's fund-raisers were successful in their contacts with donars who had never given before while those potential doners were also in contact with fund-raisers for other universities. so isnt it clear that fund raisers for Smithtown were more successful than those for other universities in persuading potential donars to donate for them??????? that means fund-raisers for Smithtown did put their effort into the action.. and this would weaken the original assumption that fund-raisers for S failed to canvass. (C) I think C is correct bcuz it says that most donations came from people who had previously donated..and fund-raisers didnt really get in touch with them this time...so means donars' actions were not from the fund-raisers...and this would support the assumption above.
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
25 Mar 2010, 08:51
IMO C
Please share the source of the question for authenticity.
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
25 Mar 2010, 10:13
How in the hell is it A and not C? I'm grossly confused on this one.
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
25 Mar 2010, 12:59
Is this an OG question? I am hard prressed to believe A is the answer. C seems to be the best choice.
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Re: CR - Smithtown (2 OAs, which one is correct?) [#permalink]
25 Mar 2010, 13:31
Ian Stewart and tenamin, Great explaination!
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
26 Mar 2010, 12:39
IMO A Explanation - Question asks for the option which strengthen the conclusion that fund raisers were not good at work B, C, D, E actually weakens it by saying that fund raisers did a good job. Read them carefully So A is the only option left
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
27 Mar 2010, 22:32
I will also go with C only.
Can someone explain here why the OA has to be A?
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
07 Apr 2010, 08:24
A, it was not easy though. It took me long time. Since I was not very happy with C I read all the options again.
Not C, because it is talking about some people (a very few perhaps) who donated without any canvassing efforts. 'Most' has been used to classify a group who donated last year--among those who donated the last and this year as well. This group could be big/small.
Why A even though it looks unlikely? Because of the argument: donation seekers have not canvassed enough. This would translate into them being average--at par with other universities.
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Re: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers [#permalink]
07 Apr 2010, 10:57
HOW THE HECK CAN A BE THE OA? I TOTALLY DISAGREE
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