CCRIQ Assumption Identification Tool / Acronym

Question

This is adapted from Brandon Royal's " Ace the GMAT ".

It's very helpful for the AWA as well as the Verbal portion (any type of strengthen / weaken questions).

Cause and Effect (or Correlation and Causation) : Did A cause B directly, or were there other factors at play? Could it have been coincidental? 
 Comparison and Analogy : Is the evidence provided valid in comparison to the conclusion? Are they really the same thing? Are we comparing apples and oranges, or apples and apples? 
 Representativeness : Was the example given typical, or an outlier? Does one example prove a larger trend?
 Implementation : How would this work in real life? Are there other barriers at play?
 Questionable Evidence (or Quantitative Methods) : Are the numbers deceptive, or perhaps gathered with the wrong methodology?

(On the GMAT--unlike in real life--you should not dispute whether the actual evidence is true, but you can question  how  it was gathered.)

keats · Answer

Thanks for putting this up here  mcelroytutoring  This definitely helps as one can use this acronym  CCRIQ  handy when solving the CR questions.
Although I got CCRQ, would you mind throwing some light of the  'I'  part. May be with the help of an example.

Thanks!

mcelroytutoring · Answer

Sure! Another way to think of "implementation" is "how practical is this proposal and how difficult would it be to implement?" In the real world, making a change is often complicated, and there is lots of bureaucratic red tape whenever a new policy is implemented (think Obamacare). Maybe the conclusion is good in theory, but difficult to put into practice in reality.

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