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Current motion pictures give children a distorted view of the world. 19 Jan 2020, 05:27
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Current motion pictures give children a distorted view of the world. Animated features depict animals as loyal friends, compassionate creatures, and tender souls, while “spaghetti Westerns” portray men and women as deceitful and treacherous, cruel and wanton, hard and uncaring. Thus, children are taught to value animals more highly than other human beings.

Which of the following, if true, would weaken the author’s conclusion?

(A) Children are not allowed to watch “spaghetti Westerns.”

(B) The producers of animated features do not want children to regard animals as higher than human beings.

(C) Ancient fables, such as Androcles and the Lion, tell stories of the cooperation between humans and animals, and they usually end with a moral about human virtue.

(D) Children are more likely to choose to watch animated presentations with characters such as animals than those with people as actors.

(E) Animals often exhibit affection, loyalty, protectiveness, and other traits that are considered desirable characteristics in humans.

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Current motion pictures give children a distorted view of the world. 19 Jan 2020, 06:30
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IMO A

If children are not allowed to watch the movie then they will not learn anything from it, and then the conclusion is not relevant.
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Current motion pictures give children a distorted view of the world. 03 Feb 2020, 05:58
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A - not allowed to watch doesn't weaken the argument that their view won't be distorted if they watch it

B - what producers want and what happens is different so irrelevant

C - concerns with old fables..

D - children tend to watch animated movies more doesn't weaken the argument...

E - animals may exhibit but that doesn't weaken argument...

IMO the best answer seems C but even that should be eliminated...

No idea why D is OA..

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Current motion pictures give children a distorted view of the world. 03 Feb 2020, 11:11
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A - not allowed to watch doesn't weaken the argument that their view won't be distorted if they watch it

B - what producers want and what happens is different so irrelevant

C - concerns with old fables..

D - children tend to watch animated movies more doesn't weaken the argument...

E - animals may exhibit but that doesn't weaken argument...

IMO the best answer seems C but even that should be eliminated...

No idea why D is OA..

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The author’s point depends on the assumption that children see both animated features and “spaghetti Westerns.” Obviously, if that assumption is untrue, he cannot claim that his conclusion follows. It may be true that children get a distorted picture of the world from other causes, but the author has not claimed that. He claims only that it comes from their seeing animated features and “spaghetti Westerns.” Presumably, the two different treatments cause the inversion of values. The intention of the producers in making the films is irrelevant since an action may have an effect not intended by the actor.

Hence, (B) would not touch the author’s point. Further, that there are other sources of information that present a proper view of the world does not prove that the problem cited by the author does not produce an inverted view of the world. So (C) would not weaken his point.

(D) reminds us of the importance of careful reading. You might want to interpret (D) to say the same thing as (A), but then you’d have to choose (A) because it makes the telling point more forcefully and directly.

Finally, (E) is irrelevant to the author’s conclusion: children learn to value animals more than people. Of course, as an exercise in debate, you might argue that this is a good thing, but that is not what (E) says.

The correct answer is (A).

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Current motion pictures give children a distorted view of the world. 03 Feb 2020, 22:16
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A - not allowed to watch doesn't weaken the argument that their view won't be distorted if they watch it

B - what producers want and what happens is different so irrelevant

C - concerns with old fables..

D - children tend to watch animated movies more doesn't weaken the argument...

E - animals may exhibit but that doesn't weaken argument...

IMO the best answer seems C but even that should be eliminated...

No idea why D is OA..

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Hi

Defining the scope of the argument is very important while solving GMAT CR. Knowing the scope of the argument helps us easily eliminate out of scope choices which are the most tempting of the traps laid by GMAT in the answer choices.

The scope of the argument in this case is : If children watch animated features depicting animals as good and “spaghetti Westerns” depicting humans as bad, then the children will value animals more highly than other human beings.

Thus, only choice A weakens the argument as this choice falls withing the scope of the argument. If children do not watch “spaghetti Westerns”, they cannot compare animals with humans.

So, “ancient fables” falls outside the scope of the argument and can be eliminated.

Choice D just tells us the preference of children but does not rule out the idea of comparison being made by the children and is thus out of scope as well.

Hope this helps :)
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