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jko · Answer

Claim:
Living in the country is more healthy and relaxed than living in the city

Evidence Against:
Surveys show that people living in the country become ill as often and as seriously as people living in the city, and that they experience an equal amount of stress.

(A) Correct

(B) Nothing in the statements above contradicts the initial claim regarding pace of life.

(C) There is nothing in the statements above to indicate this.

(D) The survey shows that, at worst, a natural rhythm of life is not MORE healthy than city life. It does not go so far as to indicate it is LESS healthy.

(E) The statements above actually contradict this.

gtr022001 · Answer

left between (A) and (B), i chose (A), similar reasons from above

gtr022001 · Answer

Hi - you can't infer (B) based off of a survey, survey data is not always 100% reliable

cliff1127 · Answer

This is definitely not the rationale for ruling out (B). The survey data is not flawed here and in fact, I would think that on all CR related questions you should assume what you're told is true. CR questions aren't intended to test your ability to rationalize whether or not the premise, conclusion, or data by itself is TRUE but how the logic and/or argument is flawed or can be better supported

Anyway, how I reasoned out (B) is that data showing that people in the country get sick doesn't say anything about their lifestyle directly. All you know is that they get sick AS OFTEN and as SERIOUSLY as those city slickers. They can still be living a slow paced life but they just get sick just as much - for literally whatever reason in the world. And that's pretty much what (A) is saying - living in the country isn't healthier than living in the city.

Kratul412 · Answer

Someone explain why A I choose E

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Kratul412 · Answer

Someone explain why A I choose E

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AbhishekDhanraJ72 · Answer

Someone explain why A I choose E????

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

Hi Abhishek

Option (E) states that the amount of stress is dependent on the rhythm of life. There is nothing in the stimulus presented that points to such a connection. Let us analyze what the stimulus says about rhythm and stress.

i) Living in the country allows a slower and more natural rhythm of life than living in the city.
ii) This is supposed to make living in the country more relaxing.
iii) People living in the country experience an equal amount of stress as those living in the city.

As you can see, (i) and (ii) taken together are in direct contradiction to (iii) - if stress depends on rhythm of life, then how do people living in the country and the city (which have different rhythms) have an equal amount of stress? Hence option (E) is not a correct inference from the information given in the stimulus.

Hope this helps.

TheGraceful · Answer

A) Living in the country is neither healthier nor more relaxing  than  city  <== Paraphrase: Living in country is not more healthier than living in city and doesn't prove to be relaxed (less stressful) compared with living in city. 
 Looks like same thing as mentioned in premises/statements in question,  let's keep it.

B) Living in the country does NOT in fact permit a slower and more natural rythm of life than living in city.
 ==> Surveys say people in country are as unheallthy and as stressful as people living in city, but no where mentions that rythm is NOT slower and more natural. Moreover, does NOT encapsulate other premise - healthy/unhealthy thing.    Eliminate it

C) People whose rythm of life is slow and natural often recover earlier from illness.
 ==> May be, may be NOT. Not mentioned in survey/premise.    Eliminate

D) Despite what people believe natural rythm of life is unhealthy.
 ==> May be, may be NOT. Not mentioned in survey/premise.     Eliminate

E) The amount of stress one experiences depends on that person's rythm of life.
 ==> May be, may be NOT. Not mentioned in survey/premise. Moreover, does NOT encapsulate other premise - healthy/unhealthy thing.    Eliminate

Now, with this process of elimination (POE), we are left with only one option - A.  Hence that should be our answer .

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unraveled · Answer

A) Living in the country is  neither healthier nor more relaxing than  city - CORRECT. Perfect since the end result - stress - is of similar scale.

B) Living in the country does NOT in fact permit a  slower and more natural rythm of life than  living in city. - WRONG. It's against the passage which is not inferable. A comparison is altogether not possible in the other way round.

C) People whose rythm of life is slow and natural often  recover earlier from illness . - WRONG. Recovery is out of context, not inferable.

D) Despite what people  believe natural rythm of life is unhealthy . - WRONG. Explicit claim is generally wrong but here its wrong as its not inferable.

E) The amount of stress one experiences  depends  on that person's rythm of life. - WRONG. Causality is not inferable, nonetheless what it infers is plain wrong.

Answer A.

djangobackend · Answer

since they get same level of stress and illness so we can infer that living in country is neither healthy nor MORE relaxing than city, since the levels are same so we cannot say one is BETTER over other.

B - it infact may permit slow and more natural rhythm but the point is one being healthier, etc. over other and not whether it permits slow, natural rhythm or not

C,D,E - garbage

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