Editor Y: This is a good photograph: the composition is attractive, es

Question

Editor Y: This is a good photograph: the composition is attractive, especially in the way the image is blurred by smoke in one corner.
Editor Z: It's very pretty, but it's a bad photograph. It doesn't make a statement; there's no obvious reason for the smoke to be there.

The editors' dialogue provides the most support for the claim that they disagree with each other about whether

(A)  a photograph's composition should be related to a statement that it makes

(B)  a photograph that is not attractive can still be a good photograph

(C)  a photograph that makes no statement can still be attractive

(D)  attractiveness by itself can make a photograph a good photograph

(E)  attractive composition and prettiness are the same feature

BrentGMATPrepNow · Accepted Answer

The question stem asks "The editors' dialogue provides the most support for the claim that they disagree with each other about whether"

In other words,  "Which of the following would the editors disagree on?"

(A) a photograph's composition should be related to a statement that it makes 
Neither editor mentions the relationship between composition and the statement it makes. 
ELIMINATE A

(B) a photograph that is not attractive can still be a good photograph 
We know that Editor Z would say that an attractive photograph can be a bad photograph, BUT there's nothing to suggest that the editor believes a photograph that is not attractive can still be a good photograph.
Also, we have no idea how Editor Y feels about this statement. 
ELIMINATE B

(C) a photograph that makes no statement can still be attractive 
Editor Z would agree with this, BUT there's nothing in the passage that suggests Editor Y would disagree with this. 
ELIMINATE C

(D) attractiveness by itself can make a photograph a good photograph 
Editor Y finds the photo attractive AND good.
Editor Z finds the photo attractive AND bad.
So, the editors definitely disagree about whether attractiveness by itself can make a photograph a good photograph
KEEP D

(E) attractive composition and prettiness are the same feature  
Editor Y MIGHT agree with this, BUT there's no reason to believe Editor Z would disagree with this. 
ELIMINATE E

Answer: D

Cheers,
Brent

LordStark · Answer

GMATNinja  all options look so close. difficult to interpret. Kindly help

redskull1 · Answer

are pretty and attractiveness the same..?

I assumed so and got this correct.POE also works for this question.

A - Y,Z both don't tell this.
B - Y,Z are both telling that the photograph is attractive.Not cool.
C - Z implies this but Y doesn't go against this.So out.
D - Y says attractive hence good.Z says pretty(attractive) but bad.Hold
E - Nobody is arguing about this.

BooRadley · Answer

Point at Issue. The correct answer choice is (D)

Editor Y likes a certain photograph while editor Z does not. Both find its composition attractive (Z concedes that it is “pretty”), but Z is troubled by the fact that the photograph does not make a statement. Both arguments are relatively simple and contain causal reasoning. According to editor Y, the photograph is good because its composition is attractive (the colon punctuation mark introduces an appositive clause that supports the clause before the colon). Likewise, the second sentence in editor Z’s argument supports her conclusion that the photograph is not good in the first.

Structurally, the two arguments can be diagrammed as follows:

Cause Effect

Y: ..... Attractive composition ----> Good photograph

Z: ..... Make a statement ----> Good photograph

Clearly, the two speakers are having a disagreement over whether the photograph in question is good or bad. The correct answer to this Point at Issue question will contain a factual statement that passes the Agree/Disagree Test, i.e. it must produce responses where one speaker would say, “Yes, I agree with this statement” and the other speaker would say, “No, I disagree with it.” Unless both responses are produced, the answer choice is incorrect.

Answer choice (A): This answer choice is incorrect because it does not pass the Agree/Disagree Test. While editor Z is likely to agree that a photograph’s composition should be related to a statement that it makes, editor Y makes no comment regarding this issue.

Answer choice (B): Both speakers agree that the photograph in question is attractive. We cannot know how they would view photographs that are not attractive.

Answer choice (C): Editor Z would agree that a photograph could be attractive without making a statement. Editor Y’s opinion, however, cannot be deduced from the information contained in the stimulus. Although Y clearly regards the photograph in question as attractive, she remains silent on the issue of whether it makes a statement. This answer does not pass the Agree/Disagree Test and is therefore incorrect.

Answer  choice (D): This is the correct answer choice,  because editor Y would agree with the statement and editor Z would disagree with it. The key to answer choice (E) is the word “can,” which denotes a possibility that is relatively easy to prove or disprove. According to editor Y, the photograph in question is good because its composition is attractive. As a result, she would probably agree that attractiveness by itself can make a photograph a good photograph. (Note the carefully worded language here. While we cannot prove that Y would regard attractiveness as sufficient to make any photograph good, it can be sufficient – as exemplified by the photograph in question.)

Editor Z, of course, would disagree with this statement. She concedes that the photograph is pretty (i.e. attractive), but argues that it is a bad photograph regardless. Therefore, she would disagree with the claim that attractiveness by itself can make a photograph a good photograph. Answer choice (E) passes the Agree/Disagree Test, and is therefore the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E): Editor Y uses the term “attractive” to describe the photograph’s composition, while editor Z concedes that “it’s very pretty, but…” This dialogue suggests that, for editor Z, the terms “attractive” and “pretty” are interchangeable and so she would probably agree that they are referring to the same feature. Of course, we have no reason to suspect that editor Y would disagree with this statement, making answer choice easy to eliminate.

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Crytiocanalyst · Answer

(A) a photograph's composition should be related to a statement that it makes
 It could be that the composition doesn't make a statement

(B) a photograph that is not attractive can still be a good photograph
 It can be attractive and a good photograph as provided from 2 of the ditors

(C) a photograph that makes no statement can still be attractive
 There is no disagreement on the same they it can be safely agree they are on the same side

(D) attractiveness by itself can make a photograph a good photograph
  This is something that's contested since editor 2 claims it to be a bad photograph while the firat claims to be attractive there on they might disagree

(E) attractive composition and prettiness are the same feature
 This out of context since prettiness was never contested  
 Hence IMO D

sssanskaar · Answer

The non-bold and non-colored portions are just explanations of the main points of the authors and you can ignore those. Just focus on the colored portions of the arguments. What's the easiest difference that you can see? arg1: Photograph is good because it's attractive. arg2: Photograph is bad although it's pretty/attractive. Straight away go to option D.

Ggt1234 · Answer

In the meantime I can give my 2 cents on this. Y as well as Z agree it is a pretty/attractive photo, but Y says it is good, while Z concludes that it is not. Hence we are aiming for an option that hits this sweetly. And D does just that. 
A) Y doesnt talk about making a statement 
B) It is reverse of what the two are saying
C) just like in A, Y doesnt mention statement 
E) they agree on this

Editor Y: This is a good photograph: the composition is attractive, es

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