Bunuel wrote:
A new interactive television company offering subscribers the ability to download movies off the Internet will have an easy time installing its new equipment in Hong Kong. Most of Hong Kong’s residential buildings are easy to rewire and in close proximity to one of the company’s central video servers. Thus, this new service is destined to succeed, despite the high cost to subscribe.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the validity of this argument?
A. There are no plans to set up similar services in any other major Asian city in the next decade.
B. Surveys indicate that many of Hong Kong's residents would like the option of American movies that are subtitled rather than dubbed. and the new company cannot offer that yet.
C. The residents of Hong Kong who have the most wealth, and are thus most likely to subscribe to the service. live too far away from the city center to be connected.
D. The current cable-television provider in Hong Kong has lost money in each of the past four years.
E. Hong Kong's Bureau of Zoning has authorized the construction of more than twenty new movie theaters next year.
Project CR Butler: Critical Reasoning
For all CR butler Questions Click Here Argument Premise --> Buildings are easy to rewire and are close to servers
Conclusion --> ITC will have easy time installing equipment in Hong Kong
Assumption --> People who will subscribe have buildings that are easy to rewire and live close to the servers
Question type - WeakenWe need something that can weaken the assumption. If the building are hard to rewire or far away from server then it will weaken the conclusion
A. There are no plans to set up similar services in any other major Asian city in the next decade. -
Out of Scope - conclusion is about Hong Kong. Other cities don't matter - WrongB. Surveys indicate that many of Hong Kong's residents would like the option of American movies that are subtitled rather than dubbed. and the new company cannot offer that yet. -->
Out of Scope -> subtitle or dubbing doesnot concern the argument. The argument says because its easy to rewire and close to server, equipment will be easy to install - WrongC. The residents of Hong Kong who have the most wealth, and are thus most likely to subscribe to the service. live too far away from the city center to be connected. -->
This attacks the premise that the people who will be installing are near the server. Here we can see that most of the people who will subscribe live far off from the server. So the conclusion is weakened. CORRECT AnswerD. The current cable-television provider in Hong Kong has lost money in each of the past four years. -->
Previous record is not a measure of performance in future -> WrongE. Hong Kong's Bureau of Zoning has authorized the construction of more than twenty new movie theaters next year. -->
Out of Scope --> it does not attack whether it is easy to rewire or near the servers. --> Wrong