Researchers conducted a study of salespeople, measuring both social competence (their ability to understand and influence social situations), and product knowledge. They then noted the performance of these salespeople in terms of the value of goods sold by them. The top performers scored high on both the product knowledge and social competence scales. Surprisingly, however, they found that among those who scored low on the social competence scale, those who scored relatively low on the product knowledge scale had higher sales than did those who scored relatively high on the product knowledge scale.
Which of the following, if true, would most help explain the researchers’ surprising finding?
A. A highly knowledgeable salesperson tends to make customers uncomfortable unless he or she also has good social skills. - WRONG. If that's been the case top performers would not have been those who have high scores on social competence scale at the first place.
B. Customers tend to assume that a salesperson with good social skills will also be very knowledgeable. - WRONG. Not about the salespeople with low social competence scale.
C. Salespeople with relatively low levels of product knowledge tend to have relatively good social skills. - WRONG. Reasoning same as option B.
D. Customers often think that salespeople with good social skills are likely to be dishonest. - WRONG. Reasoning same as option B
E. Customers make purchases based on the qualities of the goods and not on those of the salespeople. - CORRECT. Whether the salesperson good or bad on social competence scale, customer's not bothered. Customers bothered only about the quality of goods.
IMO Answer E.
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