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Updated on: 29 Feb 2024, 01:59
Originally posted by acer2knight on 25 Jun 2009, 23:56.
Last edited by Bunuel on 29 Feb 2024, 01:59, edited 2 times in total.
Last edited by Bunuel on 29 Feb 2024, 01:59, edited 2 times in total.
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People tend to estimate the likelihood of an event’s occurrence according to its salience; that is, according to how strongly and how often it comes to their attention.By placement and headlines, newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events.
It can be concluded on the basis of the statements above that, if they are true, which of the following is most probably also true?
(A) The language used in newspaper headlines about local crime is inflammatory and fails to respect the rights of suspects.
(B)The coverage of international events in newspapers is neglected in favor of the coverage of local events.
(C) Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.
(D) None of the events concerning other people that are reported in newspapers is so salient in people’s minds as their own personal experiences.
(E) The press is the news medium that focuses people’s attention most strongly on local crimes.
It can be concluded on the basis of the statements above that, if they are true, which of the following is most probably also true?
(A) The language used in newspaper headlines about local crime is inflammatory and fails to respect the rights of suspects.
(B)The coverage of international events in newspapers is neglected in favor of the coverage of local events.
(C) Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.
(D) None of the events concerning other people that are reported in newspapers is so salient in people’s minds as their own personal experiences.
(E) The press is the news medium that focuses people’s attention most strongly on local crimes.
14 Mar 2019, 00:32
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People tend to estimate the likelihood of an event’s occurrence according to how strongly and how often it comes to their attention.
By placement and headlines, newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events.
So the argument says that people connect "likelihood of an event's occurrence" with "how strongly and often it comes to their attention".
So more they hear about it, more it seems likely to happen.
Which of the following is probably true too?
(A) The language used in newspaper headlines about local crime is inflammatory and fails to respect the rights of suspects.
Irrelevant. Nothing is said about the language in which event appears in the newspaper.
(B)The coverage of international events in newspapers is neglected in favor of the coverage of local events.
Local crimes are favoured over other major events. We don't know anything about local events.
(C) Readers of local news in newspapers tend to overestimate the amount of crime in their own localities relative to the amount of crime in other places.
Since local crimes are given more "FaceTime" so to say, in people's mind, likelihood of their occurrence would be higher than crime in other places. Hence this is probably true too.
(D) None of the events concerning other people that are reported in newspapers is so salient in people’s minds as their own personal experiences.
Personal experiences are irrelevant. Past personal experiences needn't come to people's attention again and again. The whole argument is about what comes to their attention more often.
(E) The press is the news medium that focuses people’s attention most strongly on local crimes.
We don't know about other mediums. Newspapers are given just as an example.
Answer (C)
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Take another look at exactly how the passage defines "salience": "how strongly and how often [an event] comes to [one's] attention." This is very different than saying that the likelihood of an event is dependent on the factors you mentioned in your analysis -- instead of looking objectively at "how strong an event is" or its "frequency of occurrence," people are influenced by how strongly and often something is brought to their attention.
Newspapers "emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere and about many other major events." So, newspapers call the attention of readers to certain stories over others, which will in turn impact the readers' estimate of how likely those events are to occur.
Based on this understanding, let's take another look at the question:
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So, we are looking for an answer statement that "can be concluded" from the information in the passage.
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From the passage, we know that "newspapers emphasize stories about local crime over stories about crime elsewhere," and that people estimate the likelihood of something occurring based on "how strongly and how often it comes to their attention." So, we can properly conclude that readers of local papers will have local crime brought to their attention more, and thus will tend to overestimate local crime relative to crime in other areas.
(C) is correct.
Now look again at (D):
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The passage tells us how salience affects people's estimate of the likelihood of an event, and then provides information about how newspapers emphasize certain stories over others. We do not have any information about how the salience of "personal experiences" stacks up against the salience of newspaper stories -- so we cannot conclude that (D) is true based on the information in the passage. (D) is out.
I hope that helps!
