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Three months ago, the governor began her public health campaign encouraging people to take advantage of the state’s many public parks and nature reserves, rather than spending time at cinemas and malls. Since then, there has been an eleven percent decrease in cinema attendance and mall foot traffic in the state and an equivalent increase in visitors to public parks and nature reserves. Clearly, the governor’s campaign has encouraged many people to venture outside rather than entertain themselves indoors.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above?
A. State-wide strikes among retail workers have greatly reduced the operating capacity and utility of malls and cinemas during the last three months.
B. The governor frequently visits public parks and nature reserves herself.
C. Admission prices for all public parks and nature reserves in the state have risen by an average of seven percent over the last three months.
D. The number of public parks and nature reserves in the state is exactly the same now as it was at this time last year.
E. According to surveys, longtime visitors to the state’s public parks and nature reserves are no more satisfied with them than they were before the governor’s public health campaign began.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above?
A. State-wide strikes among retail workers have greatly reduced the operating capacity and utility of malls and cinemas during the last three months.
B. The governor frequently visits public parks and nature reserves herself.
C. Admission prices for all public parks and nature reserves in the state have risen by an average of seven percent over the last three months.
D. The number of public parks and nature reserves in the state is exactly the same now as it was at this time last year.
E. According to surveys, longtime visitors to the state’s public parks and nature reserves are no more satisfied with them than they were before the governor’s public health campaign began.
03 May 2026, 20:40
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Conclusion: The campaign caused people to shift from malls/cinemas to parks.
We must weaken by showing another reason for the change.
Check options:
A. says strikes reduced operation of malls and cinemas, which can explain the drop in attendance without the campaign.
This is a strong alternative cause, so it weakens the conclusion.
B. is irrelevant (governor’s habits don’t affect public behavior).
C. says park prices increased, which would reduce park visits, not increase them, so it doesn’t explain the trend.
D. says number of parks stayed same, irrelevant.
E. says satisfaction unchanged, irrelevant to behavior change.
Answer: A
We must weaken by showing another reason for the change.
Check options:
A. says strikes reduced operation of malls and cinemas, which can explain the drop in attendance without the campaign.
This is a strong alternative cause, so it weakens the conclusion.
B. is irrelevant (governor’s habits don’t affect public behavior).
C. says park prices increased, which would reduce park visits, not increase them, so it doesn’t explain the trend.
D. says number of parks stayed same, irrelevant.
E. says satisfaction unchanged, irrelevant to behavior change.
Answer: A
03 May 2026, 22:57
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three months ago governor did campaign to encourage people to take advantage of public parks and nature reserves rather than using cinema halls and malls.
since then 11% decrease in foot traffic in cinema and mall and same percentage of increase in parks visits.
Conclusion- campaign has encouraged many people to visit parks
here cause and effect is going on. since she made campaign and there was reduction in cinema and increase in parks visits afterwards, they concluded that it was her campaign that did the job.
we need to weaken this claim and if we could find some other factors for the reduction in cinema and mall traffic then we can attack the cocnlusion.
A. State-wide strikes among retail workers have greatly reduced the operating capacity and utility of malls and cinemas during the last three months.
so the capacity and utility has reduced greatly so it make sense for people to move to other places to spend their free time. and they chose to go to parks. so it was not campaign that did the job but some other forced factors that increased the parks visits. so keep this one.
B. The governor frequently visits public parks and nature reserves herself.
good for her image and her heath. but not concerned with this much. reject.
C. Admission prices for all public parks and nature reserves in the state have risen by an average of seven percent over the last three months.
prices have gone up but at same time visits have also increased that means somewhere campaign did its job. somewhat strengthen it. reject.
D. The number of public parks and nature reserves in the state is exactly the same now as it was at this time last year.
that means there was no additional parks and that allows more to believe in conclusion. reject.
E. According to surveys, longtime visitors to the state’s public parks and nature reserves are no more satisfied with them than they were before the governor’s public health campaign began.
but still num went up so not concerned about what loyal visitors felt about the parks. reject.
since then 11% decrease in foot traffic in cinema and mall and same percentage of increase in parks visits.
Conclusion- campaign has encouraged many people to visit parks
here cause and effect is going on. since she made campaign and there was reduction in cinema and increase in parks visits afterwards, they concluded that it was her campaign that did the job.
we need to weaken this claim and if we could find some other factors for the reduction in cinema and mall traffic then we can attack the cocnlusion.
A. State-wide strikes among retail workers have greatly reduced the operating capacity and utility of malls and cinemas during the last three months.
so the capacity and utility has reduced greatly so it make sense for people to move to other places to spend their free time. and they chose to go to parks. so it was not campaign that did the job but some other forced factors that increased the parks visits. so keep this one.
B. The governor frequently visits public parks and nature reserves herself.
good for her image and her heath. but not concerned with this much. reject.
C. Admission prices for all public parks and nature reserves in the state have risen by an average of seven percent over the last three months.
prices have gone up but at same time visits have also increased that means somewhere campaign did its job. somewhat strengthen it. reject.
D. The number of public parks and nature reserves in the state is exactly the same now as it was at this time last year.
that means there was no additional parks and that allows more to believe in conclusion. reject.
E. According to surveys, longtime visitors to the state’s public parks and nature reserves are no more satisfied with them than they were before the governor’s public health campaign began.
but still num went up so not concerned about what loyal visitors felt about the parks. reject.
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