abhimahna wrote:
jayantbakshi wrote:
Hi
abhimahna,
Thanks so much for taking out time and helping me with this query - indeed very kind of you.
I believe the confusion (for me) stems from the fact that the question itself is
only focussing on the quality of the product and not on the mitigation of marketing efforts. It reads, "On which of the following inferences does the
author of the passage base his conclusion that the products are of inferior quality?" Thus (I believe) that the question is asking us to think that - what could be the inference, basis which, the Author has concluded that the 'Quality' of the product is questionable.
I totally did before, and still do, agree with your reasoning that "
If customers get to know that spokespersons do not use the brands they endorse, then they might shift to other brands" which "may
not only harm the marketing efforts of the company that owns the brands".
Considering that the question is very directly focussed only on the
inferior quality of the products, I believed B was a better choice. However, I should not bother you more on this question; in case you do see my point, please do share.
Thanks again for your time and help!
Hey
jayantbakshi ,
I am happy to explain it further.
Let me ask you a simple question.
Let's say you want to buy a product. You go to amazon website and found that the ratings were not very good. Would you buy it? I hope your answer will be No.
What does that mean is since the marketing of the product is not good, you will directly consider the product of inferior quality, right?
This is what is happening here.
Since the spokespersons themselves are not using the product, it means marketing efforts are impacted. Since these efforts are impacted, it has direct relationship with the quality of the product.
This is what option C is telling us. If they might shift to other brands, they won't buy this product. If they don't, the ratings of this product will be less than what the ratings of other products would be. Hence, this will indicate that the products are of inferior quality.
Does that make sense?
Dear
abhimahna,
Thank you again for being so kind and patient. Appreciate you replying to my message. While my intention is not to bother you any further or simply disagree, just for the sake of disagreeing, I respectfully admit that we hold diverse opinions on this one! The reason I believe we are approaching this differently is because we see the
"Question" itself differently.
The way I read the question (probably biased & incorrect) is that the question is clearly (itself) putting forward the conclusion of the author, on which we have to comment: "On which of the following inferences does the
author of the passage base his conclusion that the products are of inferior quality?". Thus as I see it, the question is:
1. Employee do not use their own company's product
2. This means that the products are inferior
Q: What is the assumption here, basis which, the author has concluded that the products are inferior?
Again, I believe, the question is not at all asking about mitigation of marketing efforts, and thus it is not even relevant to the question.
For example, if I work for a soap manufacturing company, say UniLever but use a soap of P&G - the author has concluded that UniLever's products are inferior. That conclusion would be correct ONLY if the author is assuming that I choose my products ONLY basis their quality - and no other criteria.
While, in reality, I may be using a P&G soap possibly becuase it comes in 'musk' fragrance which may not be available in UniLever. Hope you would appreciate my point.
Again, I think we are seeing the question differently (& I may be reading it incorrectly!).
Sorry for the long message, we could put this to rest
Thanks again for your kindness.