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10 Dec 2011, 14:10
I still go with the answer A because the premise has been talking about the success rate of the fund raisers and not about the total amounted donated. If donors donated on their free will it doesn't show much relevance on how successful the fund raisers were because those donors are not in the equation of the success rate. Answer A is not a strong argument for the conclusion but it still supports that the fund raisers are not doing anything special relative to any other school and the success rate of 80% is just because they contacted previous donors.
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10 Dec 2011, 15:07
The correct choice is A. It reflect the effort of fund raisers. Choice C make sense that the fund raisers in this school do not do anything to prove their efforts. So, C is wrong
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12 Dec 2011, 04:47
Its C
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24 Dec 2011, 18:33
Somehow this one's explanation has always dodged my understanding
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19 Jan 2012, 17:53
I agree answer should be A, but it is a vague and weak answer. Given that B, D & E weaken the argument and C is irrelevant, A emerges as the answer.
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22 Jan 2012, 21:40
By POE, it must be A
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02 Apr 2012, 06:08
Anasthaesium wrote: Somehow this one's explanation has always dodged my understanding same with me...i felt the answer is C based on my understanding, but the official answer is A...so i dont know how to understand this problem
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03 Apr 2012, 00:30
drdas wrote: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers succeeded in getting donations from 80 percent of the potential donors they contacted. This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate that they were doing a good job. On the contrary, since the people most likely to donate are those who have donated in the past, good fund-raisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base. The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort.
Which of the following, if true, provides more support for 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. (B) This year the average size of the donations to Smithtown University from new donors when the university’s fund-raisers had contacted was larger than the average size of donations from donors who had given to the university before. (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. (D) The majority of the donations that fund-raisers succeeded in getting for Smithtown University this year were from donors who had never given to the university before. (E) More than half of the money raised by Smithtown University’s fund-raisers came from donors who had never previously donated to the university. Option A is irrelevant as it compares donors from other universities to Smithtown’s university. Option B is also irrelevant as average size of the donation does not affect the conclusion. option C strengthens the conclusion as donors whom the contact is not made is making donation then measuring success based on conversion of these donors is wrong. --- correct answer option D we cannot compare amount of donation with no of donations. This statement is either irrelevant or indirectly weakens the conclusion. option E again the amount of money and no of donations should not be compared.... irrelevant I am not sure why OA is A.... Please enlighten me
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03 Apr 2012, 03:41
IanStewart +1 for you........
Indeed A is answer now......
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03 Apr 2012, 20:43
This is a tough question. Because it forces you to take a certain viewpoint:
Look at the problem from the aspect of canvassing:- (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. So, same as other unis with new fund raisers – Canvassing was not done? Because canvassing should indicate higher new folks. (B) This year the average size of the donations to Smithtown University from new donors when the university’s fund-raisers had contacted was larger than the average size of donations from donors who had given to the university before. New fund raiser more funding per donor – Irrelevant to canvassing. (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. New donor donated without any contact. – relates to canvassing but not relevant to new donors. (D) The majority of the donations that fund-raisers succeeded in getting for Smithtown University this year were from donors who had never given to the university before. Supports canvassing theory and says that canvassing worked, but doesn’t support the theory that canvassing was insufficient. So, weakens the argument. (E) More than half of the money raised by Smithtown University’s fund-raisers came from donors who had never previously donated to the university. Supports canvassing theory and says that canvassing worked, but doesn’t support the theory that canvassing was insufficient. So, weakens the argument.
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13 Apr 2012, 13:24
I enjoy the communities effort to democratically elect the answer. It seems the majority either voted for A or C. My contribution to this problem would point out that A says nothing about the canvassing efforts, which is the main argument. The main argument states that the high success rate shows insufficient canvassing efforts, even though 80% of contacted donors donated.
A) points out that the success rate of Smithtowns fund-raisers is about as good as everyone elses. (However, we are supposed to find that they did a bad job) C) points out that the majority of the donations came from donors that previously had donated but weren't even contacted. (Now, if Georgetown fund-raisers received money from 80% of the donors they contacted - and still got more of their donations from people that had previously donated without being contacted - can only mean that they didn't even contact donors that previously donated - meaning they were REALLY bad fundraisers. As it is stated in the stem, good fundraisers constantly try less likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base. Bad ones don't do this and instead just focus on the low hanging fruit offered by previous donors. In C), the fundraisers didn't even do that - which clearly shows insufficient canvassing efforts.)
Just food for thought.
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05 Jun 2012, 10:37
certainly a 700 level question. Great explanation from Ian!
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06 Jun 2012, 02:56
B, D and E weeken the conclusion.
In case of C, it is stated that many past donors have donated without being contacted by the fund raisers. This means more fund came from new donor base. This actually strengthens the fund raisers being effective.
A is the only possible choice.
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06 Jun 2012, 06:15
Whats the conclusion here? How does A relate to it? Isnt c Obvious?
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nishtil wrote: drdas wrote: Smithtown University’s fund-raisers succeeded in getting donations from 80 percent of the potential donors they contacted. This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate that they were doing a good job. On the contrary, since the people most likely to donate are those who have donated in the past, good fund-raisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base. The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort.
Which of the following, if true, provides more support for 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. (B) This year the average size of the donations to Smithtown University from new donors when the university’s fund-raisers had contacted was larger than the average size of donations from donors who had given to the university before. (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. (D) The majority of the donations that fund-raisers succeeded in getting for Smithtown University this year were from donors who had never given to the university before. (E) More than half of the money raised by Smithtown University’s fund-raisers came from donors who had never previously donated to the university. Option A is irrelevant as it compares donors from other universities to Smithtown’s university. Option B is also irrelevant as average size of the donation does not affect the conclusion. option C strengthens the conclusion as donors whom the contact is not made is making donation then measuring success based on conversion of these donors is wrong. --- correct answer option D we cannot compare amount of donation with no of donations. This statement is either irrelevant or indirectly weakens the conclusion. option E again the amount of money and no of donations should not be compared.... irrelevant I am not sure why OA is A.... Please enlighten me I had the same thought process as you. But then I re-read the question. Here's my take on this : Smithtown University’s fund-raisers succeeded in getting donations from 80 percent of the potential donors they contacted. This success rate, exceptionally high for university fund-raisers, does not indicate that they were doing a good job. On the contrary, since the people most likely to donate are those who have donated in the past, good fund-raisers constantly try less-likely prospects in an effort to expand the donor base. The high success rate shows insufficient canvassing effort. According to the author's definition, a "good fund-raiser" has the following characteristics : - constantly try less-likely prospects - may not have exceptionally high success rate Hence only choice A fits gives any additional info as to why HE THINKS that the fund raisers did not do a good job. This fits the bill of any answer choice that give additional info that would strengthen the argument/conclusion. I think answer choice A appeals to the common sense aspect our thinking and I have seen that these answer choices are usually a trap. (especially for must-be true questions) Hope that helps
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Got this question right. Sorry, but I don't think this one is at 700 level.
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C. Only C relates directly to the question.
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C is correct.
Question is aimed at determining whether or not the fund raisers are 'good fundraisers' or not... nothing else. By the question, a 'good fundraiser' is one who seeks to tap less-likely prospects and people who have not donated before thus giving a lower overall success rate.
Only answer 'C' addresses this as it states that most of the donations came from people who had donated previously, as they are the most likely to donate again. The fundraisers at Smithtown did not even contact these people, thus showing that the fundraisers were 'not good'.
Answer A us about frequency compared to other universities (??), Answer B is about 'average size of donations' (??), Answer D states that majority where from donors who never gave before which goes against the argument and does not support it, and Answer E is again, going against the argument not supporting it.
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10 Apr 2013, 14:30
It cannot be "C". the 80% success rate is based on donators they have contacted. Since "C" states that "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" then the 80% success rate has to come from first time donators which seriously weakens the argument.
By opposition, "A" implies that the fund raisers haven't been particularly successful in getting money from first time donators as they succeeded only "as frequently as were fund-raisers for other universities". In this case, the 80% success rate must come from people who had previously donated, thus strengthening the argument.
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