Drug manufacturer: Television audiences are sure to realize

A good approach is to look at words from both sides. Clearly, D is wrong because there is no goal in the conversation.
C, E are out.
B is not what is addressed in the argument.
A is left.

Hi experts,
I am not able to understand how the manufacturer is conflicting his opinion for option A. Can someone break that answer choice as per the argument and convey its meaning

Dear Anazeer,

I'm happy to respond.

With all due respect, my friend, what you have asked here is not a high quality question. You simply tell us what you are not able to understand. What is your understanding of the entire argument? Are there words or phrases used that you don't understand? An excellent question makes clear every aspect of what you understand and what you don't understand. Read this blog post carefully:
Asking Excellent Questions
Part of asking an excellent question is proactively taking advantage of all the resources at your disposal--something you will be expected to do all the time when you are a manager. My friend, I have a few posts on this thread in which I have already written quite a bit. I am going to challenge you to read everything I have written here and then, taking all this into account, ask a detailed & specific question, the best possible question you can ask.

If you do that, I will be happy to answer it.

Mike

GMATNinja @VeristasKarishma

If the audience can realize the physician is an actor, Why does the drug manufacturer
conclude "therefore, networks should relax their guidelines to permit our company to broadcast this advertisement"

I didn't get why this conclusion is made.

How is A the right answer??
How do I eliminate other answer choices?

VeritasKarishma Mam I marked E and by POE, I was able to arrive at Option A and Option E. Kindly explain

What is the ability of the drug manufacturer ?
he knows TV audience can realize something
sweeping generalization= physician is actually an actor playing a role.

TV executive says: If the audience can know . means OK " As you say that xxx"
TV executive didnt say NO, you are wrong about generalization or you don't know what audience may assume.

Instead what TV executives does:
He uses whatever manufacturers says to reach to some point that make him conflict with his own though.

What A says:
conflicts with the manufacturer's presumed motive
now you see similar language is used. whatever u said it conflicts with your own thought.

So A is clearly a winner.

To crack these questions, after shortlisting options, you can match option with information given in argument as I did above.


Hope it helps.

Manufacturer: People will know that the "physician" in our ad is actually an actor playing a role. So they will not place much trust in his word. So there will be no misdirection (people will not think that a doctor is telling us to take this drug). So this Ad should be allowed.

Executive: If the audience can tell that the actor is not a physician, then your advertisement need not have a physician figure recommending your product.

The manufacturer is saying that the audience will know it is not a physician so let us air the Ad. The executive says that if the audience will know that it is not a physician, why are you using a "physician persona" in your Ad? Makes sense, right? The executive is implying that the manufacturer is trying to fool people by using a physician person in his ad. So claiming that people will not be fooled is wrong. If he is convinced that people will not be fooled, why use the misdirection in his Ad?

You need to find the option that gives you the strategy that the executive is using.

(A) Indicating that the reason the drug manufacturer offers for relaxing the guidelines conflicts with the manufacturer's presumed motive for presenting the image of a physician in the advertisement.

Correct. The executive says that the manufacturer' reason for allowing the Ad (that people will not be fooled) conflicts with his motive for using the image of a physician (presumably the physician is used to fool people into believing that a medical practitioner is recommending the product). This is exactly the executive's argument. By saying that if the audience will not be fooled, why use a physician, he is implying that the manufacturer is hoping that the audience will be fooled. That is why he is using a physician's image in the Ad.

(B) Asserting that the drug manufacturer's expressed desire to broadcast the advertisement is motivated by self-interest rather than by genuine interest in the good of the audience.

No discussion on who is acting out of whose interest.

(C) Invoking subjective opinions concerning audience reaction to television advertisements as if those opinions constituted objective evidence.

The executive doesn't say "there is no proof that audience will not be fooled?" or something like this.

(D) Pointing out that the goals of the drug manufacturer's company differ from those of television networks.

No discussion on any goals.

(E) Questioning the ability of the drug manufacturer to make any sweeping generalization about what the many different members of the audience may think.

The executive doesn't say, "How do you know that people will not be fooled? What credentials do you have to make such statements?" etc.
This would be questioning the ability of the manufacturer to make this sweeping generalisation.
Take note that you may believe that the manufacturer is making sweeping generalisations but the point is this - Is the executive's argument pointing it out? No. Then this cannot be your answer. You have to say how the executive is putting forward his argument, not what is wrong with the manufacturer's argument.

Answer (A)­­

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