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Hi Guys I'm looking to take my GMAT by the end of February as I have conditional offer at Cass requiring I score above 600. I want to focus on the Q and V section due to my time restrictions and so was wondering if anyone could please give my essay a read and let me know if I need to spend time on my essay writing as well.
The following appeared in a memorandum issued by a large city’s council on the arts:
“In a recent citywide poll, 15 percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city’s art museums has increased by a similar percentage. Since the corporate funding that supports public television, where most of the visual arts programs appear, is now being threatened with severe cuts, we can expect that attendance at our city’s art museums will also start to decrease. Thus some of the city’s funds for supporting the arts should be reallocated to public television.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
The conclusion reached in the memorandum issued by the City in mention is based on flawed assumption. The claims made in the memorandum may have stemmed from other factors than the level of public television. These claims are also based on vague statistics, which require an added level of detail to truly support the claim made.
Firstly the memorandum mentions the rise in the percent of residents watching television programs about the visuals arts, but fails to give the numbers behind this percentage. For example had the number of people polled today compared to five years ago been significantly different then only little can be inferred from the percentage increase. Similarly the demographics of the second statistical premise in the statement needs to be analyzed. Had the number of people who have caused the increase in visitation to the city’s arts been from other countries the link between this increase and public television could be flawed. With more details on the number of people polled and who visit the museum, as well as where they are from we will be able to make a more concrete correlation between public television and the museum visitation.
The assumption that public television is the only source of advertisement for the art museum needs to be assessed. If radio, word of mouth, Internet reviews etc. bring more people to the museum than public television, then these would make better investments of the city’s funds. The memorandum assumes public television to be the most significant factor in the number of visitors without properly justifying this.
If we assume the connection between public television and visits to the museum to be strong then another issue, which needs to be discussed, is the importance of the museum to the large city. Being that it is a large city you could also assume that there are other attraction that draw people to the city, which may have better returns on investments for city’s funds. The priority of the museum in terms of benefits to the city needs to be discussed before any funds to support public television are increased.
Without properly justifying and analyzing the connection between the visual arts programs and the number of people who visit the city’s art museum to replace a loss in public television funding with the city’s funds would not be wise. Perhaps there is a reason the corporate funding is taking a severe cut that makes funding public television unreasonable and this is something the city should enquire about before changing its support for public television.
The following appeared in a memorandum issued by a large city’s council on the arts:
“In a recent citywide poll, 15 percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city’s art museums has increased by a similar percentage. Since the corporate funding that supports public television, where most of the visual arts programs appear, is now being threatened with severe cuts, we can expect that attendance at our city’s art museums will also start to decrease. Thus some of the city’s funds for supporting the arts should be reallocated to public television.”
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion.
The conclusion reached in the memorandum issued by the City in mention is based on flawed assumption. The claims made in the memorandum may have stemmed from other factors than the level of public television. These claims are also based on vague statistics, which require an added level of detail to truly support the claim made.
Firstly the memorandum mentions the rise in the percent of residents watching television programs about the visuals arts, but fails to give the numbers behind this percentage. For example had the number of people polled today compared to five years ago been significantly different then only little can be inferred from the percentage increase. Similarly the demographics of the second statistical premise in the statement needs to be analyzed. Had the number of people who have caused the increase in visitation to the city’s arts been from other countries the link between this increase and public television could be flawed. With more details on the number of people polled and who visit the museum, as well as where they are from we will be able to make a more concrete correlation between public television and the museum visitation.
The assumption that public television is the only source of advertisement for the art museum needs to be assessed. If radio, word of mouth, Internet reviews etc. bring more people to the museum than public television, then these would make better investments of the city’s funds. The memorandum assumes public television to be the most significant factor in the number of visitors without properly justifying this.
If we assume the connection between public television and visits to the museum to be strong then another issue, which needs to be discussed, is the importance of the museum to the large city. Being that it is a large city you could also assume that there are other attraction that draw people to the city, which may have better returns on investments for city’s funds. The priority of the museum in terms of benefits to the city needs to be discussed before any funds to support public television are increased.
Without properly justifying and analyzing the connection between the visual arts programs and the number of people who visit the city’s art museum to replace a loss in public television funding with the city’s funds would not be wise. Perhaps there is a reason the corporate funding is taking a severe cut that makes funding public television unreasonable and this is something the city should enquire about before changing its support for public television.
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