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13 Sep 2013, 23:13
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Several legislators claim that the public finds many current movies so violent as to be morally offensive. However, these legislators have misrepresented public opinion. In a survey conducted by a movie industry guild, only 17 percent of respondents thought that movies are overly violent, and only 3 percent found any recent movie morally offensive. These low percentages are telling, because the respondents see far more current movies than does the average moviegoer.
The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument
(A) attempts to undermine the legislators’ credibility instead of addressing their argument
(B) bases its conclusion on subjective judgments rather than on an objective criterion of moral offensiveness
(C) fails to consider the possibility that violent movies increase the prevalence of antisocial behavior
(D) generalizes from a sample that is unlikely to be representative of public sentiment
(E) presumes, without providing justification, that the people surveyed based their responses on a random sampling of movies
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The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument
(A) attempts to undermine the legislators’ credibility instead of addressing their argument
(B) bases its conclusion on subjective judgments rather than on an objective criterion of moral offensiveness
(C) fails to consider the possibility that violent movies increase the prevalence of antisocial behavior
(D) generalizes from a sample that is unlikely to be representative of public sentiment
(E) presumes, without providing justification, that the people surveyed based their responses on a random sampling of movies
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What is the conclusion of this question?
What is the meaning of the last sentence : 'These low percentages are telling, because the respondents see far more current movies than does the average moviegoer.' Should because be that?
What is the meaning of the last sentence : 'These low percentages are telling, because the respondents see far more current movies than does the average moviegoer.' Should because be that?
15 Sep 2013, 21:51
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Responding to a pm:
The conclusion of an argument is the main point that the author is trying to make. What is he saying here?
He is trying to justify that 'these legislators have misrepresented public opinion.' by giving some data about the survey. Hence the conclusion is " these legislators have misrepresented public opinion.".
The last line means that the low percentages are important' they are giving you information; they are revealing - because the people surveyed watch far more movies than the average movie goer so if these people feel there isn't excessive violence, it must be true because they have seen far more movies and would know whether excessive violence is there. The author is trying to impress upon you that these numbers are even more indicative because the people surveyed watch a lot of movies.
But in fact, that is the reason why the argument is flawed. The people surveyed are those who watch a lot of movies and hence are not representative of the "average movie goer". The people who surveyed probably watch a lot of movies so they don't get offended or they don't get offended so they watch a lot of movies or whatever. The point is that they don't represent the average movie goer and hence we cannot infer about the opinion of average movie goers according to the opinion of the group that was surveyed.
Hence (D)
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The argument opens with the classic “some people claim” construction. The legislators claim that the public finds many movies to be offensive, but the author rejects that position and concludes the legislators have misrepresented public opinion. The author uses the results of a survey as evidence. At first glance this argument looks very strong to most people, but then they encounter the question stem and realize there must be an error. This is a critical moment: when the question stem indicates an error is present but you did not realize one exists, you must go back to the stimulus and look for the error. Do not proceed to the answer choices thinking that the answers will clarify or reveal the error to you! The answer choices are designed to subtly draw your attention toward side issues, and it is far preferable that you find the error first and then find the answer that correctly describes the error.
In this argument, the error occurs with the people that were surveyed in the poll. The last sentence reveals that the survey did not use an unbiased sample: “the respondents see far more current movies than does the average movie goer.” As you might imagine, individuals who attend a large number of movies are by definition interested in the movies that are being shown, and are more likely to be aware of the level of violence and accepting of it. These tendencies make the sample unrepresentative of the general population—an error correctly described in answer choice (D). To help spot this error, note that the last sentence of the argument indicates that the surveyed individuals saw more movies than the average moviegoer. In other words, the survey respondents were not average.
Answer choice (A): This answer describes a Source argument. The author uses survey data to attack the legislator’s position and does not attack the credibility of the legislators.
Answer choice (B): The conclusion is based on the results of a survey about public opinion, not on subjective judgments of moral offensiveness.
Answer choice (C): The argument is not about what causes antisocial behavior, so it is not a flaw that the argument fails to consider that violent movies increase the prevalence of antisocial behavior.
Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer.
Answer choice (E): The argument gives no data to suspect that the responses were not based on a random sampling of movies seen. The error is instead that the people surveyed represented a biased sample.
