suminha wrote:
Each of the academic journals Thought and Ergo has a review committee to prevent misattributed quotations from appearing in its published articles. Nevertheless, about ten percent of the quotations in Thought's published articles are misattributed, whereas Ergo contains no misattributions. Ergo's committee is more effective, therefore, than Thought's at finding misattributed quotations.
The argument above assumes that
(A) most of the articles submitted to Thought for publication contain misattributed quotations
(B) there are at least some misattributed quotations in articles submitted to Ergo for publication
(C) the members of Ergo's committee are, on the whole, more knowledgeable than are the members of Thought's committee
(D) the number of misattributed quotations in a journal is an accurate measure of how carefully that journal is edited
(E) the authors who submit articles to Ergo for publication are more thorough in attributing quotations than are the authors who submit articles to Thought
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The author says that the journals published in Thought contain some misattributed quotes, while the journals published in Ergo have none. He consequently
concludes that the review committee at Ergo is more efficient than the committee at Thought in seeking out misattributed quotes.
The main point to be understood here is that the author
has no idea how many correctly/incorrectly attributed quotes are being sent to the journals.
His inference that Ergo's committee is better is based on the
assumption that Ergo also receives some misattributed quotes. Since Ergo's committee rectifies all of them (100% efficiency), it must be more efficient than Thought's review committee.
If this assumption was not made, the author would be unable to grade the efficiencies of the committees. If he assumed that Ergo got no misattributed quotes, then clearly the efficiency of the two committees couldn't even be a factor for contention.
Answer choice B.