haardiksharma wrote:
What is the error in D?
My reasoning is
if the accountant accounted for that law he would not have set a time limit for a project as whatever time limit he sets time to require to complete project will always be more than that
I think you actually have a good point - rereading the problem, I think the question designer wants the answer to be C, but as the question is written, D is probably the most logical answer. There's a problem with the way the question is written, at least if C is meant to be right. The question stem says "if the statements above are true..." Well the two "statements above" are that "I received an email telling me something" and "I have revised my estimate". Hofstadter's Law itself is not one of the "statements" in the stem, so the question never tells us to assume the Law is a fact. That's a bit of a subtle point, but if a question began:
"Someone told me my bus will be late. If this statement is true..."
then the statement we're being asked to assume is true is that someone told me something about my bus. We're not being told one way or the other if the bus will actually be late - what the person told me could be right or wrong.
For C to be the correct answer, we need to assume Hofstadter's Law is a true fact. I think that's exactly what the question designer intended when they wrote the question, but interpreting the wording literally, that's not what the question says. And if we take the question literally, D then becomes a decent answer, and a very good answer if you insert the word "correctly": "The accountant has not correctly accounted for Hofstadter’s Law" is the right answer here, because had the accountant correctly accounted for the Law, he or she could only have said "the project will take longer than 8 months".
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