CEdward wrote:
I don't know about this one...To me, I am leaning towards B. Both Winston and Sanjay express that there is a gap in the current process for rewarding scientists - it fails to take into account more than 3 scientists and dead scientists...
"many important results are the worst of..." and "...died before their work was fully appreciated" signals to me that we can infer that they both agree that perhaps a change in the rules is warranted.
So using tonality, I would say B is more consistent with the two individuals.
While I also picked B, I kind of get why E is correct here. Hence, sharing my 2 cents here -
I'd agree that in a broader sense we can infer both from the passage. Of course Sanjay and Winston do not appreciate the rules of awarding the science nobel prize. They are criticising it. And it can of course be inferred that they do not find these rules to be inappropriate/incorrect/inaccurate. If they are calling something inaccurate, of course they would want the rules to change right? Yes!
But the problem with B is that it mentions other nobel prizes. We have no idea how these other prizes are awarded. It is possible that another discipline has similar rules hence that would need to be changed as well. (It is possible that "mathematics" follows similar rules, and winston and Sanjay might advocate for maths and science to follow the same, but a new set of rules). If B had simply said rules for science need to be different that they currently are, that would have been a real pain. But thankfully, we do not know anything about other disciplines and can hence reject this.
For E, I see that people have mentioned that we cannot discredit the achievement of the winners, i.e those who have been awarded with prize as per the current rules and hence the rules cannot be inaccurate. Now, We dont need to discredit the winners. Those decisions would probably be accurate, I agree. But picture this scenario, what if somebody whose scientific result was 100 times more important than that of winner of the 2019 nobel prize for science, but he wasn't awarded the prize as he is dead. Is that really accurate? More importantly, is the
process behind the award accurate? Even if I say that 99% (over exaggerating here) of the times the decision is right, I can clearly see that the decision making behind the award is inaccurate. (You wouldn't consider it a good study session if you got 20 questions correct but the decision making behind getting those questions right was flawed).
I hope this helps!