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Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem : In GenSect Solutions, majority of the IT professionals work on Projects involving coding. A survey done last year found that as high as 25% of female IT professionals but only 5% of male ones committed errors while writing codes. The findings of the survey clearly indicate that a longer stint at writing codes and therefore a greater proficiency in coding makes male IT professionals much better at writing codes than their female counterparts.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is not significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts.

B. The male IT professional do not constitute a significantly larger percentage of IT professionals at GenSect Solutions than the female ones.

C. The higher percentage of errors in newly joined IT professionals as compared to that in employees with a few years’ experience is attributable to the greater amount of coding experience.

D. The male IT professionals, in general do a comparable amount of coding with reference to the female IT professionals.

E. The client companies of GenSect prefer their projects to be handled by male IT professionals because of the lower error margins

OA is A , i couudlnt eliminate C - Please explain
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Option C is the inference that the argument is drawing directly. Hence it cannot be the assumption.

I picked B though.
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Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem : In GenSect Solutions, majority of the IT professionals work on Projects involving coding. A survey done last year found that as high as 25% of female IT professionals but only 5% of male ones committed errors while writing codes. The findings of the survey clearly indicate that a longer stint at writing codes and therefore a greater proficiency in coding makes male IT professionals much better at writing codes than their female counterparts.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is not significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts.

B. The male IT professional do not constitute a significantly larger percentage of IT professionals at GenSect Solutions than the female ones.

C. The higher percentage of errors in newly joined IT professionals as compared to that in employees with a few years’ experience is attributable to the greater amount of coding experience.

D. The male IT professionals, in general do a comparable amount of coding with reference to the female IT professionals.

E. The client companies of GenSect prefer their projects to be handled by male IT professionals because of the lower error margins

OA is A , i couudlnt eliminate C - Please explain
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Interesting. C is eliminated because it is gender neutral and we need a gender specific answer to choosing IT Males over IT Females. Option E is reiteration. Option B is saying numbers are equal (but what if amount of work is not comparable?) where as Option D is saying amount of work is equal (but what if numbers are different?). Option A solves issue with B and D, both.
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Interesting. C is eliminated because it is gender neutral and we need a gender specific answer to choosing IT Males over IT Females. Option E is reiteration. Option B is saying numbers are equal (but what if amount of work is not comparable?) where as Option D is saying amount of work is equal (but what if numbers are different?). Option A solves issue with B and D, both.
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I agree. it should be

option A
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Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem : In GenSect Solutions, majority of the IT professionals work on Projects involving coding. A survey done last year found that as high as 25% of female IT professionals but only 5% of male ones committed errors while writing codes. The findings of the survey clearly indicate that a longer stint at writing codes and therefore a greater proficiency in coding makes male IT professionals much better at writing codes than their female counterparts.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is not significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts.

B. The male IT professional do not constitute a significantly larger percentage of IT professionals at GenSect Solutions than the female ones.

C. The higher percentage of errors in newly joined IT professionals as compared to that in employees with a few years’ experience is attributable to the greater amount of coding experience.

D. The male IT professionals, in general do a comparable amount of coding with reference to the female IT professionals.

E. The client companies of GenSect prefer their projects to be handled by male IT professionals because of the lower error margins

OA is A , i couudlnt eliminate C - Please explain
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Can you tell why couldn’t you eliminate C? What was your thought process? C is totally out of scope. There is no mention of newly joined IT professionals. Argument only talks of male/ female IT professionals. Option D is pretty close but as it does not mention amount is less or more therefore is eliminated. A is the best choice.
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My analysis: the assumption is that male professionals have more experience than female professionals... is this correct?
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My analysis: the assumption is that male professionals have more experience than female professionals... is this correct?
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No

Assumption is anything that if not present breaks the argument. If you cannot rethink the assumption just try negating the answer choice and see if it breaks the argument/ conclusion or not.

if it does; it is an assumption.

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Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem : In GenSect Solutions, majority of the IT professionals work on Projects involving coding. A survey done last year found that as high as 25% of female IT professionals but only 5% of male ones committed errors while writing codes. The findings of the survey clearly indicate that a longer stint at writing codes and therefore a greater proficiency in coding makes male IT professionals much better at writing codes than their female counterparts.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is not significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts.

B. The male IT professional do not constitute a significantly larger percentage of IT professionals at GenSect Solutions than the female ones.

C. The higher percentage of errors in newly joined IT professionals as compared to that in employees with a few years’ experience is attributable to the greater amount of coding experience.

D. The male IT professionals, in general do a comparable amount of coding with reference to the female IT professionals.

E. The client companies of GenSect prefer their projects to be handled by male IT professionals because of the lower error margins

OA is A , i couudlnt eliminate C - Please explain
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In this question: if I negate the A answer choice that is "The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts." This would employ that the Male IT professionals committed less mistakes because they do less per capita coding than female IT professional and not because they are proficient. Hence this will break the argument/ conclusion.

Hope this helps.
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Can you tell why couldn’t you eliminate C? What was your thought process? C is totally out of scope. There is no mention of newly joined IT professionals. Argument only talks of male/ female IT professionals. Option D is pretty close but as it does not mention amount is less or more therefore is eliminated. A is the best choice.
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I again read the argument carefully; I am wrong here. Apology for wrong analysis. The argument does talk about stint at writing codes and hence time people have spent in company. So newly joined IT professional does make sense here.
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Not exactly clear although now option A makes sense...but why is it mentioned that male per capita work is not significantly lower than female’s.
"Not significantly" stands for what inference here?
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Not exactly clear although now option A makes sense...but why is it mentioned that male per capita work is not significantly lower than female’s.
"Not significantly" stands for what inference here?
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Missing of a cause that may break the argument is also an assumption.
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I was put off by the use of ’not significantly lower’ What if per capital male coding work is 10 & per capital female coding work is 12. Not significantly low but still lower than female? Wouldn’t this indicate that male do not have a longer stint and therefore do not have greater proficiency?

’not significantly lower’ doesn’t necessarily imply ’greater’, no?
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If the "work per person" is significantly lower, then we wouldn’t be able to compare accuracy accurately. "Not significantly lower" means comparable
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but why do we have to know about accuracy specifically here. We are given that longer stint guarantees proficiency, no?

greater could be as low as 0.001% for eg
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but why do we have to know about accuracy specifically here. We are given that longer stint guarantees proficiency, no?
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Longer stint guarantees proficiency is the conclusion that has been made by the Survey. But....look at it this way.....is this conclusion reliable if the total amount of work done by men is way too low compared to the work done by women? What if 1 out of the 20 men made a mistake (5%) where as all 25,000 but out of 1,00,000 females made a mistake (25%)? Would one still consider males "more proficient" ? Rather, is this comparison fair enough to judge? Also, we don’t know what quantum of work was assigned to these 20 men or 1,00,000 women. Both of these should suggest that our comparison isn’t fair enough. Unless, work done per man and work done per woman is "comparable / not significantly higher-lower than one another"
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It all makes sense now, thanks. Hadn’t thought along those lines. Cheers :-)
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Above explanation is the best one...damn sure this is of topmost difficulty
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A - More of a strenghtener, eliminate
B - Even if it is cumbersome, we cannot assume it is not possible and that it’d solve the intended purpose, eliminate
C - Similar to A (strengthener), eliminate
D - Again a strengthener, eliminate
E - Right answer
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Could someone tell me what is the major difference between "Inference" questions and "most logically completes the argument/passage" ?

What one should look for, to answers of Inference questions and for the logically completes the argument questions..

Please anyone..
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Could someone tell me what is the major difference between "Inference" questions and "most logically completes the argument/passage" ?

What one should look for, to answers of Inference questions and for the logically completes the argument questions..

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I am not a verbal expert but I will try to address your doubt to best of my capacity. In inference ques the correct answer is that must be true what is stated in the passage whereas in Complete the logic ques we are asked about a strengthen an agrument, weaknen an argument, find an assumption, state a conclusion or inference Or Evaluate a plan it basically tests our all critical reasoning skills. I am sharing one link maybe if it helps: critical-reasoning-notes-compilation-188073.html
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