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Every week, the programming office at an FM radio station reviewed unsolicited letters from listeners who were expressing comments on the station’s programs. One week, the station received 50 letters with favorable comments about the station’s news reporting and music selection and 10 letters with unfavorable comments on the station’s new movie review segment of the evening program. Faced with this information, the programming director assumed that if some listeners did not like the movie review segment, then there must be other listeners who did like it. Therefore, he decided to continue the movie review segment of the evening program.
Which on e of the following identifies a problem with the programming director’s decision process?
(A) He failed to recognize that people are more likely to write letters of criticism than of praise.
(B) He could not properly infer from the fact that some listeners did not like the movie review segment that some others did.
(C) He failed to take into consideration the discrepancy in numbers between favorable and unfavorable letters received.
(D) He failed to take into account the relation existing between the movie review segment and the news.
(E) He did not wait until he received at least 50 letters with unfavorable comments about the movie review segment before making his decision.
Which on e of the following identifies a problem with the programming director’s decision process?
(A) He failed to recognize that people are more likely to write letters of criticism than of praise.
(B) He could not properly infer from the fact that some listeners did not like the movie review segment that some others did.
(C) He failed to take into consideration the discrepancy in numbers between favorable and unfavorable letters received.
(D) He failed to take into account the relation existing between the movie review segment and the news.
(E) He did not wait until he received at least 50 letters with unfavorable comments about the movie review segment before making his decision.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Be careful not to read more into this question than is stated. Clearly, it is unwarranted to use the fact that some listeners wrote in expressing disfavor with the movie review segment to conclude that other unspoken listeners favored it. The answer is (B).
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TYPE: FLAW IN REASONING
Pre-thinking: The tricky part here is to understand that the FAVORABLE comments are for the reporting and music sections. While, the UNFAVORABLE comments were all for the movie review sections. So we want to indicate WHY the author's reasoning is wrong when he ASSUMES that, because there were negative comments for the movie section, there are also people out there that enjoyed the movie section.
(A) He failed to recognize that people are more likely to write letters of criticism than of praise. ----- This actually supports the author's idea that there must be people out there that enjoyed the movie review section.
(B) He could not properly infer from the fact that some listeners did not like the movie review segment that some others did. ------- CORRECT. The author made an unwarranted inference. He assumed that because there were some people who disliked the movie review section THERE MUST BE other people who liked it. This is not necessarily true, since it is possible that no one liked it.
(C) He failed to take into consideration the discrepancy in numbers between favorable and unfavorable letters received. -------- The tricky part is that the favorable letters were not for the movie review section. So they don't really matter.
(D) He failed to take into account the relation existing between the movie review segment and the news. ------- The relation between those two programs is not important. If people like one of them they could or could not like the other one.
(E) He did not wait until he received at least 50 letters with unfavorable comments about the movie review segment before making his decision. ------- 50 letters is an arbitrary quantity. There's nothing to think that the current sample (10 letters) is insufficient.
Pre-thinking: The tricky part here is to understand that the FAVORABLE comments are for the reporting and music sections. While, the UNFAVORABLE comments were all for the movie review sections. So we want to indicate WHY the author's reasoning is wrong when he ASSUMES that, because there were negative comments for the movie section, there are also people out there that enjoyed the movie section.
(A) He failed to recognize that people are more likely to write letters of criticism than of praise. ----- This actually supports the author's idea that there must be people out there that enjoyed the movie review section.
(B) He could not properly infer from the fact that some listeners did not like the movie review segment that some others did. ------- CORRECT. The author made an unwarranted inference. He assumed that because there were some people who disliked the movie review section THERE MUST BE other people who liked it. This is not necessarily true, since it is possible that no one liked it.
(C) He failed to take into consideration the discrepancy in numbers between favorable and unfavorable letters received. -------- The tricky part is that the favorable letters were not for the movie review section. So they don't really matter.
(D) He failed to take into account the relation existing between the movie review segment and the news. ------- The relation between those two programs is not important. If people like one of them they could or could not like the other one.
(E) He did not wait until he received at least 50 letters with unfavorable comments about the movie review segment before making his decision. ------- 50 letters is an arbitrary quantity. There's nothing to think that the current sample (10 letters) is insufficient.
