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Critical Reasoning Butler: February 2024
February 6	CR 1	CR 2

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can anyone tell me how to understand if the use of "which" in a sentence is correct or not???

(a) The Petrol price/ had already (b) been/ increased twice (c)in/ the last 15 months and the Ministry of Petroleum had also (d)levied/ additional monthly charges to consumers. (e)No error/

Ans: is (d) how???

It will be "levied on "

which can only be used if it have an antecedent in that sentece

sentence *

Critical Reasoning Butler: February 2024
February 7	CR 1	CR 2

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Technological innovation rarely serves the interests of society as a whole. This can be seen from the fact that those responsible for technological advances are almost without exception motivated by consideration of personal gain rather than societal benefit in that they strive to develop commercially viable technology.

The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that:

(A) Contains a premise that cannot possible be true
(B) Takes for granted that technology beneficial to society as a whole cannot be commercially viable
(C) Fails to consider the possibility that actions motivated by a desire for personal gain often do not result in personal gain
(D) Takes for granted that an action is unlikely to produce a certain outcome unless it is motivated by a desire to produce that outcome
(E) Draws a conclusion about the practical consequences of people’s actions on the basis of theoretical views about what people should or should not do

­Hi ! Can anyone pls explain me how ’take for granted’ has been used in the options. ’take for granted’ means not giving adequate importance, right? So, by this logic, I eliminated D as correct ans since the author is giving importance to the motivation aspect and the whole argument is talking about the lack of motivation for societal benefits leads to not serving the interests of the society.Can anyone correct the flaw in my reasoning

The questions is aking on which ground this can be criticised and the author is assuming that societal benefits can’t come as a byproduct/effect of the commercially viable technology, which is not always true. So, D is the right option

Critical Reasoning Butler: February 2024
February 8	CR 1	CR 2

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Hi Bunuel, am I the only onw who is Unable to oprn the CR1 and CR2 links for feb 8?

@Bunuel this one

Critical Reasoning Butler: February 2024
February 8	CR 1	CR 2

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Can you see/access them now?

Research has concluded that women are just as capable as men in math but that their skills are not veloped because society expects them to develop other more diverse abilities. Which of the following is a basic assumption of the researcher?

(A) Ability in Math is more important than ability in more diverse subjects.

(B) Ability in math is less important than ability in more diverse subjects.

C) Women and men should be equally capable in Math.

D) Women might be more capable than men in Math.

E)Women tend to conform to social expectations.

Hey guys, this is a CR. Will any of you mind to help me on this? I was thinking it’s answer is B. Am I right?

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Negation Test: if women don’t confirm to societal expectations, their mathematical ability would be developed to match that of men’s.
That way entire argument breaks down.

Conform*

Critical Reasoning Butler: February 2024
February 9	CR 1	CR 2

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CR Questions February - 10 :

Q1. It is probably within the reach of human technology to make the climate of Mars inhabitable. It might be several centuries before people could live there, even with breathing apparatuses, but some of the world’s great temples and cathedrals took centuries to build. Research efforts now are justified if there is even a chance of making another planet inhabitable. Besides, the intellectual exercise of understanding how the Martian atmosphere might be changed could help in understanding atmospheric changes inadvertently triggered by human activity on Earth.

The main point of the argument is that


A. It is probably technologically possible for humankind to alter the climate of Mars.

B. It would take several centuries to make Mars even marginally inhabitable.

C. Making Mars inhabitable is an effort comparable to building a great temple or cathedral.

D. Research efforts aimed at discovering how to change the climate of Mars are justified.

E. Efforts to change the climate of Mars could facilitate understanding of the Earth’s climate.


Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Governments have only one response to public criticism of socially necessary services: regulation of the activity of providing those services. But governments inevitably make the activity more expensive by regulating it, and that is particularly troublesome in these times of strained financial resources. However, since public criticism of child-care services has undermined all confidence in such services, and since such services are socially necessary, the government is certain to respond.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

(A) The quality of child care will improve.

(B) The cost of providing child-care services will increase.

(C) The government will use funding to foster advances in child care.

(D) If public criticism of policy is strongly voiced, the government is certain to respond.

(E) If child-care services are not regulated, the cost of providing child care will not increase.