janxavier wrote:
Can someone plz explain it to me clearly? I seriously do not get it at all .
Isn't it about "even with increased time spent on computers the time spent on TV viewing has not changed"?
So it is the TV viewing time that is the prime concern ryt? Not the free-time theory
Question:The growing popularity of computer-based activities was widely expected to result in a
decline in television viewing, since it had been assumed that people lack sufficient free
time to maintain current television-viewing levels while spending increasing amounts of
free time on the computer. That assumption, however, is evidently false: in a recent mail
survey concerning media use, a very large majority of respondents who report increasing
time spent per week using computers report no charge in time spent watching television.
Which of the following would it be most useful to determine in order to evaluate the
argument?
A. Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television
regularly
B. Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people
who report that they rarely or never use computers
C. Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the
amount of time spent per week using computers increases
D. Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending
increasing amounts of time per week using computers
E. Whether the survey respondents’ reports of time spent using computers included
time spent using computers at work
Let's figure out the conclusion first as it is the difficult part in this question
Conclusion: The popularity of computer based activities has not led to the decline of television viewing.
Why??
Premise: The survey results said that people are spending more time on the computer per week but no change in time spent watching television.
Earlier it was assumed that people have less sufficient free time and thus TV viewing will decline but this assumption is wrong and People have sufficient free time to not to reduce TV viewing.
For Evaluate question type, The answer to the questions above should swing the conclusion from one extreme to another
A. Whether a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television
regularly
Ans is Yes,then a large majority of the survey respondents reported watching television regularly. It does not do anything to the conclusion
No again nothing to the conclusion
B. Whether the amount of time spent watching television is declining among people
who report that they rarely or never use computers
Well this class of people is out of scope. We are only worried about people who use computers in free time C.Whether the type of television programs a person watches tends to change as the
amount of time spent per week using computers increases
We are only bothered about time spent watching TV and not really concerned about the content
D. Whether a large majority of the computer owners in the survey reported spending
increasing amounts of time per week using computers
the large majority of computer owners in the survey will be a subset of total no. of people responded in the survey.If this population of computer owners in the survey is 99% of the total survey size then surely TV viewing is effected but if this size of computer owners is only 1% then TV viewing may not be effected because you will have more people who may not be owners but still be using computers the results of this class will define what happens to TV viewing...
So ruled out.
So even if you answer this question you cannot arrive at the conclusion.
E.Whether the survey respondents’ reports of time spent using computers included
time spent using computers at work
If the answer is yes then surely time spent on computers is more but usage in free time may be less and hence TV viewing remains same
If the answer is no then using computers only considers free time which will be less and hence people will have less time to watch TV..
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