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27 Apr 2004, 07:45
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Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best Candidates to the job. The legislature's move to raise the salary has done nothing to improve the situation, because it was coupled with a ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements.
Pat: No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat's response to Mel is inadequate in that it
A. attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.
B. mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change.
C. attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely
D.by pointing to the absence of negative effects simply denies Mel's claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial
E. assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group.
Pat: No, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect.
Pat's response to Mel is inadequate in that it
A. attempts to assess how a certain change will affect potential members of a group by providing evidence about its effect on the current members.
B. mistakenly takes the cause of a certain change to be an effect of that change.
C. attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely
D.by pointing to the absence of negative effects simply denies Mel's claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial
E. assumes that changes that benefit the most able members of a group necessarily benefit all members of that group.
27 Apr 2004, 08:19
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Marine,
I think you've mixed your answers up. I really think that the beginning of answer choice D is the phrase that completes C. It doesn't make much sense the way it's written.
C should be "attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects".
D should be "simply denies MelтАЩs claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial"
D is the best answer.
I think you've mixed your answers up. I really think that the beginning of answer choice D is the phrase that completes C. It doesn't make much sense the way it's written.
C should be "attempts to argue that a certain change will have a positive effect merely by pointing to the absence of negative effects".
D should be "simply denies MelтАЩs claim without putting forward any evidence in support of that denial"
D is the best answer.
27 Apr 2004, 21:01
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Clearly, A is best.
Mel says: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best Candidates to the job
A) says that the ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements will not affect the situation and in that in fact, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. However, Pat's response is based on current members "Since very few judges [current judges] teach or give lectures..." This is not sufficient to explain how that ban will not hamper the recruitment of the best candidates as mentioned in Mel's argument.
D) Pat does give evidence to support his argument. "Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect" is his argument although it is a weak one as explained above
Mel says: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best Candidates to the job
A) says that the ban on receiving money for lectures and teaching engagements will not affect the situation and in that in fact, the raise in salary really does improve the situation. However, Pat's response is based on current members "Since very few judges [current judges] teach or give lectures..." This is not sufficient to explain how that ban will not hamper the recruitment of the best candidates as mentioned in Mel's argument.
D) Pat does give evidence to support his argument. "Since very few judges teach or give lectures, the ban will have little or no negative effect" is his argument although it is a weak one as explained above
