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A journalist covering professional poker players found that these individuals tend to be risk-takers and possess the complementary traits of aggressiveness, confidence, and quick-wittedness. The journalist concluded that the world of professional poker tends to attract those who naturally enjoy taking risks.

If true, which of the following statements would most weaken the journalist’s conclusion?


A. Professional poker players develop their risk-loving traits through years of experience playing the game of poker.

B. Professional poker players often display good public speaking skills that stem from their natural self-confidence.

C. Many individuals who are not poker players have taken greater risks than has the average professional poker player.

D. The most successful professional poker players have claimed that skill, rather than luck, is responsible for their success.

E. The professional poker players featured in the journalist’s story were not able to successfully apply their betting strategies to similar activities, such as investing.
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Re: A journalist covering professional poker players found that these indi [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2022, 02:52
The journalist concluded that the world of professional poker tends to attract those who naturally enjoy taking risks.

Cause: Natural Risk Taking Tendency
Effect: Attracted to Poker

To weaken the above conclusion we have to prove the cause and effect relationship otherwise.

Cause: Poker
Effect: Risk taking tendency developed

Option A somewhat states that. However, there is word risk-loving in option A which was problematic but all the other options were not close. Therefore, option A won.
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Re: A journalist covering professional poker players found that these indi [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2022, 07:51
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The journalist concluded that the world of professional poker tends to attract those who naturally enjoy taking risks.

Cause: Natural Risk Taking Tendency
Effect: Attracted to Poker

To weaken the above conclusion we have to prove the cause and effect relationship otherwise.

Cause: Poker
Effect: Risk taking tendency developed

Option A somewhat states that. However, there is word risk-loving in option A which was problematic but all the other options were not close. Therefore, option A won.
Bunuel zhanbo Sir, it is requested to kindly acknowledge and correct, if needed, the responses being submitted as I am trying to improve my CR Skills.


Your reasoning (and the answer) is sound, but bear in mind that, in order to weaken the conclusion, we do not really need to prove that the opposite is true. Any answer choice that casts doubt on the conclusion weakens the conclusion. In almost all the "weaken" questions, only one option out of five really does anything to do the weakening. That is why, if we see this question in an actual test, we should be confident enough to choose (A) without expending additional time and energy on the remaining four options, thus saving probably one minute. In practice time, though, it helps to review and confidently eliminate other options.
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Re: A journalist covering professional poker players found that these indi [#permalink] New post   22 Jul 2022, 01:05
The stem contains causation. B happened because A happened. The weaken option attributes the cause of B to something else other than A. Here the cause is: the continuous experience of playing the game inducing a particular personality trait.

The answer could be anything that weakens the argument-anything-not necessarily the causation-but it's helpful to approach the options with an awareness of the presence of the causation.
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Option C weakens the journalist's conclusion by suggesting that individuals who are not poker players take greater risks than average professional poker players, implying that risk-taking isn't exclusive to poker players and that other factors may drive them to the profession.
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