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 28 Jan 2005, 15:01
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The Asian American History Association receives approximately 1,000 proposals each year from individuals who wish to present papers at its annual meeting. The association’s officers would like to ensure constant standards of quality in the presentations from year to year. The officers have therefore decided to accept for presentation each year only the best 300 papers selected on the basis of the quality of the proposals submitted.
Of the following, the best criticism of the officers’ plan is that the plan assumes that
(A) Professional associations cannot accept all papers submitted for presentation at their annual meetings.
(B) The total number of proposals submitted to the association will remain at approximately 1,000 in future years.
(C) Each proposal submitted to the association deserves to be considered a serious candidate for presentation.
(D) It is difficult to judge the quality of a paper on the basis of the proposal alone.
(E) The best 300 papers submitted to the association for presentation will be of the same quality from year to year.
Explain the reason for your answer.
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D seems good to me.
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I will stick with (B), though I think that (E) and (B) are very close.
But since (E) directly attacks the quality of paper (D) attacks on the stated assumption that they will always have around 1000 papers ..suppose any given year the number of papers fall below 1000 or rather saw below 300 than in that case we will not be able to talk about the quality of 300 paper (as total number of papers will be less than 300) hence B gives a more severe blow.
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This appears to be a measurement error problem of sorts:
We wish to control the quality of the presentations. However, we can observe only the PROPOSAL. We make the assumption that the proposal is representative of the actual presentation.
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(D) They want best presentations. But they make their decisions based on proposals. If the proposals are not a good representation of the actual presentation, then they may not have made good judgement about which presentations should be accepted.
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I am torn between (B) and (D)
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I would go with E.
They want constant quality year in year out, so they assume the 300 proposals are same quality year after year
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May be I am thinking like stupids but I don't know somehow I am inclined to pick A.
Saurabh Malpani
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OA plz
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I had picked D. The OA says E.
Can somebody explain why E is better than D or why D is wrong?
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Hmmm I suppose the key is "to ensure constant standards of quality from year to year" ...
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This one is a very good CR. I agree with E. in the passage, it was clearly stated that organizers want to maintain "high quality" of papers presented. It was also stated that the target number of presentations/papers are 300 each year.
D is close but only discuss the gap between proposal and paper
E attacks the two issues of finite, pre-set number and the ideal "high standard. This is slightly better than D
I first picked D too. This one is a nice trap question. Please let me know if I can further explain this CR.
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I see the argument of E but I will continue this one level further: note that the problem states that a constant STANDARD of quality and not a constant level of quality per se. A firm can impose a constant quality standard (top 1% of MBA class) without getting the same quality (student performance might vary from year to year).
Thus, the quality of papers can vary but the standard can remain the same.
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