The World Energy Council maintains ranking of nations, detailing which

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The World Energy Council maintains ranking of nations, detailing which country’s citizens are the most and least energy conscious by measuring the amount of electricity consumed per every 100 citizens.

Of the following, each statement, if true, would serve as a logical objection to using the council’s ranking as a representation of the energy consciousness of citizens in each nation EXCEPT:

A. The refrigeration of food consumes significantly less electricity in countries with a temperate or arctic climate than it does in countries with a tropical climate.
B. Some countries have hundreds of millions of citizens and some barely have a few millions. 
C. The average citizen in developed nations can afford to purchase more energy-efficient technology than can citizens of less developed nations.
D. Due to low electricity production, many developing countries regularly shut down residential electrical supply for as long as a few hours every day for several months in a year.
E. The power grids of some countries are in poor shape and thus waste more electricity than do power grids of other countries.

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Suyash750 · Answer

It should be B. The stem clearly states that they are ranking per 100 citizens. So population size is already normalised here and hence Whether a country has 5 million or 500 million people is irrelevant.

arushi118 · Answer

B - will not offer a logical objection to using council's ranking as a representation of the energy consciousness of citizens - as it is said in the passage that energy is measured "per every 100 citizens". So toal citizens in a country does not matter.

Sajjad1994 · Answer

Explanation

The council  ranks  energy consciousness based on electricity consumed per every 100 citizens. A  logical objection  to this ranking would be a factor that makes  “electricity consumed per capita”  a poor measure of how conscious citizens are about energy use.

(A)  The refrigeration of food consumes significantly less electricity in countries with a temperate or arctic climate than it does in countries with a tropical climate.

This is an external factor (climate) affecting energy use, unrelated to consciousness, so it’s an objection.

(B)  Some countries have hundreds of millions of citizens and some barely have a few millions.

But they are measuring per 100 citizens (per capita), so population size is already factored out by averaging. Unless  B  suggests total consumption is being misattributed to consciousness, but in fact per capita already controls for population size. Actually,  B  just says populations differ but per capita accounts for that. This does not make per capita consumption a bad measure of consciousness in itself. This is a possible candidate as this is an EXCEPT question.

(C)  The average citizen in developed nations can afford to purchase more energy-efficient technology than can citizens of less developed nations.

That means they might use less electricity because of wealth and technology, not because of consciousness so per capita use could be lower for reasons unrelated to consciousness. That’s an objection.

(D)  Due to low electricity production, many developing countries regularly shut down residential electrical supply for as long as a few hours every day for several months in a year.

That artificially lowers per capita consumption unrelated to consciousness.

(E)  The power grids of some countries are in poor shape and thus waste more electricity than do power grids of other countries.

Wasted electricity in transmission still counts as  “electricity consumed”  in national totals (used per capita), but the waste is at the grid level, not due to citizen behavior so it distorts measure of citizen consciousness.

Answer: B

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

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