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16 Feb 2018, 14:01
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Ski Resort Board Member: The free skier safety courses that have been offered by the resort for the past ten years must be improved or eliminated. The courses, which are designed to encourage safe skiing and reduce the risk of collisions and injuries, have always been free, highly publicized, and offered at various times throughout the week to accommodate a wide variety of scheduling needs. Despite this admirable initiative, a study shows that, during the past 10 years, skiers who completed the course were just as likely to be involved in a collision as skiers who did not complete the course. The resort wastes thousands of dollars each week running these ineffective courses.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the board member's argument depends?
A. The skier safety courses could be improved without substantially increasing the program's budget.
B. There are other methods besides offering skier safety courses that are more effective in reducing the risk of skier collisions and injuries.
C. Skiers who completed the course are no less likely to be involved in a collision than they would have been if they had not completed the course.
D. There is no way to reduce the current costs of running the mountain safety courses.
E. Even though the courses are free, most skiers would prefer not to spend their time attending a safety course.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the board member's argument depends?
A. The skier safety courses could be improved without substantially increasing the program's budget.
B. There are other methods besides offering skier safety courses that are more effective in reducing the risk of skier collisions and injuries.
C. Skiers who completed the course are no less likely to be involved in a collision than they would have been if they had not completed the course.
D. There is no way to reduce the current costs of running the mountain safety courses.
E. Even though the courses are free, most skiers would prefer not to spend their time attending a safety course.
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03 Dec 2019, 04:14
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Isn't Option C a restatement of what is already given in the argument?
Do we still consider this as an assumption?
Do we still consider this as an assumption?
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Ski Resort Board Member: The free skier safety courses that have been offered by the resort for the past ten years must be improved or eliminated. The courses, which are designed to encourage safe skiing and reduce the risk of collisions and injuries, have always been free, highly publicized, and offered at various times throughout the week to accommodate a wide variety of scheduling needs. Despite this admirable initiative, a study shows that, during the past 10 years, skiers who completed the course were just as likely to be involved in a collision as skiers who did not complete the course. The resort wastes thousands of dollars each week running these ineffective courses.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the board member's argument depends?
A. The skier safety courses could be improved without substantially increasing the program's budget.
B. There are other methods besides offering skier safety courses that are more effective in reducing the risk of skier collisions and injuries.
C. Skiers who completed the course are no less likely to be involved in a collision than they would have been if they had not completed the course.
D. There is no way to reduce the current costs of running the mountain safety courses.
E. Even though the courses are free, most skiers would prefer not to spend their time attending a safety course.
The author concludes that the safety courses must be improved or eliminated because they are ineffective. The evidence: skiers who completed the course were just as likely to collide as skiers who did not.
But what if the participants were especially collision-prone, and the course brought their risk down to the level of nonparticipants? The two groups would then have equal collision rates even though the course had made its participants safer.
(A) Incorrect. The argument does not require improvements to be affordable. If improvements would be too costly, the author could still recommend eliminating the courses.
(B) Incorrect. The author need not assume that better alternatives exist. Even without a better alternative, the author could argue for eliminating an ineffective course.
(C) Correct. This choice does not repeat the passage. Instead, it makes a different comparison. The passage compares two groups: skiers who completed the course and skiers who did not. C compares the collision risk of the course participants with collision risk risk of the same people if they had not taken the course.. Basically (C) gives us the necessary assumption bridge in case the people who took the course were really bad at skiing but now are just average. If that were the case, the course is indeed helpful but for the conclusion to work, we must assume that the people were just as good/bad at collisions before the course as they were after. Otherwise the conclusion would break.
To see why C is necessary, negate it: the participants would have been more likely to collide without the course. That would mean the course made them safer, undermining the author's claim that it was ineffective. C rules out this possibility.
(D) Incorrect. Reducing costs would not establish that the course improves safety. The author could still argue that spending money on an ineffective course is wasteful, even at a lower cost.
(E) Incorrect. Whether most skiers prefer not to attend does not establish whether the course benefits those who complete it. The argument concerns the course's effectiveness, not its popularity.
Answer: C
Ski Resort Board Member: The free skier safety courses that have been offered by the resort for the past ten years must be improved or eliminated. The courses, which are designed to encourage safe skiing and reduce the risk of collisions and injuries, have always been free, highly publicized, and offered at various times throughout the week to accommodate a wide variety of scheduling needs. Despite this admirable initiative, a study shows that, during the past 10 years, skiers who completed the course were just as likely to be involved in a collision as skiers who did not complete the course. The resort wastes thousands of dollars each week running these ineffective courses.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the board member's argument depends?
A. The skier safety courses could be improved without substantially increasing the program's budget.
B. There are other methods besides offering skier safety courses that are more effective in reducing the risk of skier collisions and injuries.
C. Skiers who completed the course are no less likely to be involved in a collision than they would have been if they had not completed the course.
D. There is no way to reduce the current costs of running the mountain safety courses.
E. Even though the courses are free, most skiers would prefer not to spend their time attending a safety course.
The author concludes that the safety courses must be improved or eliminated because they are ineffective. The evidence: skiers who completed the course were just as likely to collide as skiers who did not.
But what if the participants were especially collision-prone, and the course brought their risk down to the level of nonparticipants? The two groups would then have equal collision rates even though the course had made its participants safer.
(A) Incorrect. The argument does not require improvements to be affordable. If improvements would be too costly, the author could still recommend eliminating the courses.
(B) Incorrect. The author need not assume that better alternatives exist. Even without a better alternative, the author could argue for eliminating an ineffective course.
(C) Correct. This choice does not repeat the passage. Instead, it makes a different comparison. The passage compares two groups: skiers who completed the course and skiers who did not. C compares the collision risk of the course participants with collision risk risk of the same people if they had not taken the course.. Basically (C) gives us the necessary assumption bridge in case the people who took the course were really bad at skiing but now are just average. If that were the case, the course is indeed helpful but for the conclusion to work, we must assume that the people were just as good/bad at collisions before the course as they were after. Otherwise the conclusion would break.
To see why C is necessary, negate it: the participants would have been more likely to collide without the course. That would mean the course made them safer, undermining the author's claim that it was ineffective. C rules out this possibility.
(D) Incorrect. Reducing costs would not establish that the course improves safety. The author could still argue that spending money on an ineffective course is wasteful, even at a lower cost.
(E) Incorrect. Whether most skiers prefer not to attend does not establish whether the course benefits those who complete it. The argument concerns the course's effectiveness, not its popularity.
Answer: C
