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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established to protect workers from accidents and unsafe conditions on the job. There has actually been an increase in the number of jobrelated accidents under OSHA. This demonstrates the agency's ineffectiveness.

Which of the following, if true concerning the period during which the increase occurred, most seriously weakens the argument above?

(A) A number of job categories, excluded from the jurisdiction of OSHA in the legislation originally establishing the agency, have continued to be outside OSHA's jurisdiction.
(B) OSHA has been assigned a greater number of kinds of workplace activities to monitor.
(C) There has been an increase in the total number of people at work, and the ratio of work-related deaths and injuries to size of work force has fallen in OSHA-supervised occupations
(D) Regulations issued by OSHA have met with political criticism from elected officials and the mass media.
(E) The increase in job-related accidents has occurred mainly in a single job category, whereas the number of job-related accidents has remained approximately constant in other categories.
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why not B?
i chose b since the workers are assigned to different monitoring fields

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established to protect workers from accidents and unsafe conditions on the job. There has actually been an increase in the number of jobrelated accidents under OSHA. This demonstrates the agency's ineffectiveness.

Which of the following, if true concerning the period during which the increase occurred, most seriously weakens the argument above?

(A) A number of job categories, excluded from the jurisdiction of OSHA in the legislation originally establishing the agency, have continued to be outside OSHA's jurisdiction.
(B) OSHA has been assigned a greater number of kinds of workplace activities to monitor.
(C) There has been an increase in the total number of people at work, and the ratio of work-related deaths and injuries to size of work force has fallen in OSHA-supervised occupations
(D) Regulations issued by OSHA have met with political criticism from elected officials and the mass media.
(E) The increase in job-related accidents has occurred mainly in a single job category, whereas the number of job-related accidents has remained approximately constant in other categories.
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Can someone explain why C?

A) Incorrect, because it appears that there were no changes, comparing the beginning and now

B) Incorrect, greater number of workplace activities doesn't automatically result in a higher rate of work-related accidents

C) ?

D) Incorrect, we are not looking at politics here


E) Why not correct? Increase in one category and constant in all others would result in a higher percentage of total accidents or not?
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established to protect workers from accidents and unsafe conditions on the job. There has actually been an increase in the number of jobrelated accidents under OSHA. This demonstrates the agency's ineffectiveness.

Which of the following, if true concerning the period during which the increase occurred, most seriously weakens the argument above?

(A) A number of job categories, excluded from the jurisdiction of OSHA in the legislation originally establishing the agency, have continued to be outside OSHA's jurisdiction.
(B) OSHA has been assigned a greater number of kinds of workplace activities to monitor.
(C) There has been an increase in the total number of people at work, and the ratio of work-related deaths and injuries to size of work force has fallen in OSHA-supervised occupations
(D) Regulations issued by OSHA have met with political criticism from elected officials and the mass media.
(E) The increase in job-related accidents has occurred mainly in a single job category, whereas the number of job-related accidents has remained approximately constant in other categories.


Can someone explain why C?

A) Incorrect, because it appears that there were no changes, comparing the beginning and now

B) Incorrect, greater number of workplace activities doesn't automatically result in a higher rate of work-related accidents

C) ?

D) Incorrect, we are not looking at politics here


E) Why not correct? Increase in one category and constant in all others would result in a higher percentage of total accidents or not?
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IMHO Only option (C) and (E) are worth considering, but if we take option (E) and analyse then we do still have a string of doubt about the effectiveness of OSHA, whereas (C) talks about increase in population size as a result of which there is an increase in accidents, however there is a proportionate fall in casualties and fatalities under OSHA supervised jobs....

Thus option (C) weakens the argument more than option (E) hence our Answer must be (C)....
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