mainhoon wrote:
Whiplash,
I am confused.
D says it is IMPOSSIBLE to... Well the stimulus says that "an electric piano designed to..", and that the "professional pianists are the only ones to judge".. If professional pianists are the only ones to judge and clearly they don't like the sound of the so-designed pianos, and it is clear that the world is made up of people other than the professional pianists, why cannot we infer that there are other people to whom the pianos would sound better than they do to the professional pianists? To me D is strongly worded. E leaves a possibility open. What is really in-scope and what is really out of scope.
if the stimulus says A does not like B, is it not reasonable to infer that not(As) might like B?
Professional pianists are a group of people who can judge whether a piano is better than the existing grand pianos. The stimulus says that these people don't like the sound of the electric pianos. Hence it would be IMPOSSIBLE for these judges to ever admit that an electric piano is better than the existing Grand Pianos.
It is currently impossible to create an electric piano that [highlight]accepted judges[/highlight]will evaluate as being an improvement on existing grand pianos.
We are clear on the notion that accepted judges, i.e. the professional pianists will never accept an electric piano to be better than the existing pianos. This is exactly what option D says, that it is IMPOSSIBLE to create an electric piano that the accepted judges, i.e. professional pianists, would evaluate as being better than existing pianos.
This basically breaks down to saying that professional pianists will NEVER accept any electric piano to being better than a grand piano. This is what the conclusion from the stimulus says as well.
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why cannot we infer that there are other people to whom the pianos would sound better than they do to the professional pianists?
Because we don't care about the other people. Option D talks about accepted judges, and that refers only to the professional pianists. Not anyone else.