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Employees that get a thorough medical examination twice a year take fewer sick days. Even employees who get examined only once a year take less sick time than those who do not get checked. Therefore, if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

A. Employees who get medical check ups during working hours occasionally feel ill for short periods of time after the examination.
B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program.
C. Employees who get a thorough medical examination once a week in their company's medical program usually also get checked by their private doctor.
D. Employees who get examined in their company's in-house medical program use their working time no more productively than those who do not get examined.
E. Employees who get medical examinations during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not get examinations.

madgmat2019 · Answer

B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program....So there won't be any use of conducting a medical program.... Seriously weakens the conclusion

OA:B

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eakabuah · Answer

The right answer is option A in my opinion.

Premise 1: Employees who undertake thorough medical check-ups twice a year take fewer sick days.
Premise 2: Employees who get checked once a year take fewer sick days compared with those who don't.

Conclusion: Absenteeism rates will reduce if companies institute in-house medical examination programs.

We need an option that weakens the conclusion of the argument either by presenting counter-evidence that either significantly impacts on absenteeism or presents a counter-information that suggests the proposal for a medical examination may lead to absenteeism themselves.

Option A suggests that if an employee gets a medical check up during working hours, they may fall ill for a short period of time. The emphasis of the argument is to reduce absenteeism. So if a an employee will fill sick for even a short period of time after a check-up, then this casts some doubt on the efficacy of the proposal in the argument for an in-house medical examination. Besides, short period of time is relative, it can be days or even weeks. If the short period of time is weeks, then surely medical check-ups during working hours is not the ideal thing to do. Hence my choice of option A as the answer.

Options B, C, and D are irrelevant to the argument.

Option E strengthens the argument rather than weaken it.

LalitaSiri · Answer

Employees that get a thorough medical examination twice a year take fewer sick days. Even employees who get examined only once a year take less sick time than those who do not get checked. Therefore, if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.

Conclusion: if companies introduce in-house medical examination programs, the adsentee rate in the company will decrease.
To find weaken argument

Pre-thinking: What if it is another way around, the employees who absent, do not go health check-up or did not do as the doctor suggest. The argument will not hold true.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

A. Employees who get medical check ups during working hours occasionally feel ill for short periods of time after the examination.
B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program. - CORRECT - this answer choice in line with our pre-thinking.
C. Employees who get a thorough medical examination once a week in their company's medical program usually also get checked by their private doctor.
D. Employees who get examined in their company's in-house medical program use their working time no more productively than those who do not get examined.
E. Employees who get medical examinations during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not get examinations.

Therefore B is the correct answer choice.

Archit3110 · Answer

conclusion of arguement;
Therefore, if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.
we need a statement which gives an alternate reason why the in house medical examination program would not be successful
IMO B; Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program

Employees that get a thorough medical examination twice a year take fewer sick days. Even employees who get examined only once a year take less sick time than those who do not get checked. Therefore, if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

A. Employees who get medical check ups during working hours occasionally feel ill for short periods of time after the examination.
B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program.
C. Employees who get a thorough medical examination once a week in their company's medical program usually also get checked by their private doctor.
D. Employees who get examined in their company's in-house medical program use their working time no more productively than those who do not get examined.
E. Employees who get medical examinations during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not get examinations.

siddharthkapoor · Answer

The argument is concerned with the absentee rates of employees in companies.

We have to weaken the argument that if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.

A. Wrong. Irrelevant.
B. Correct. This option suggests that the plan will fail because those employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to participate in the corporate medical program designed to solve the problem at hand.
C. Wrong. Irrelevant.
D. Wrong. Out of scope.
E. Wrong. Out of scope.

Raxit85 · Answer

Imo. A

Premise: Employees that get a thorough medical examination twice a year take fewer sick days. Even employees who get examined only once a year take less sick time than those who do not get checked.

Conclusion: Therefore, if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

Weakener: What if medical check ups do examine severe (critical) illness of employees or such medical check ups do not have high-tech equipment to check severe type of illness. 
In such cases, medical checkup will not helpful for such ill employees and absentee rate in those companies will not decrease significantly.

A. Employees who get medical check ups during working hours occasionally feel ill for short periods of time after the examination. - If even after implementing medical check ups during office hrs, employees feel ill for short period of time after the examination, then one can avail the leaves and absentee rate would not decrease. So, hold it.
B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program. - Here, the statement centers around non co-operation of the employees and medical check up team. Besides. Crucial word examination is also missing. Hence, incorrect.
C. Employees who get a thorough medical examination once a week in their company's medical program usually also get checked by their private doctor. - Out of scope
D. Employees who get examined in their company's in-house medical program use their working time no more productively than those who do not get examined. - So, what nothing related to the effect.
E. Employees who get medical examinations during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not get examinations. - Out of scope.

A and B are contender but B is somewhat out of context. A is not the best one, but better of the remaining options.

chaitralirr · Answer

IMO B

The stimulus states that employees who are examined in offices take less sick leave as compared to those who do not get checked. So companies should incorporate medical examinations to decrease absenteeism.

We need to weaken the claim that even though companies start medical examination it will not impact absenteeism.

The employees who are more prone to absenteeism are least likely to undergo medical examination. So even though companies start medical examination it won't help to reduce absenteeism

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exc4libur · Answer

ARGUMENT
  Employees who get medical exams take less sick time than those who get no exams;
  So if employees got examined in-house, then absentee rate would decrease significantly.

WEAKEN
A. "employees after in-house checkups feel ill short after" this doesn't necessarily mean that the rate would not fall;
C. "employees get checked once a week in-house also get checked elsewhere" irrelevant;
D. "employees who get checked in-house use their time as productively as those who are not checked" irrelevant;
E. "employees who get checked in-house take longer breaks" this doesn't necessarily mean that the rate would not fall;

Answer (B): if employees who are frequently absent don't cooperate with the program, then the rate will not decrease.

CareerGeek · Answer

We have to say, Check ups help to reduce absentee rate when examination is done for 1 day or 2 days a year, however in-house medical program will not help reducing absentee rate

A. Employees who get medical check ups during working hours occasionally feel ill for short periods of time after the examination.
 —> Irrelevant as it does not talk about the absentee rate

B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program.
 —> Correct. If Employees does not get the checkup done, the program will never help in decreasing the absentee rate.

C. Employees who get a thorough medical examination once a week in their company's medical program usually also get checked by their private doctor.
 —> Irrelevant. Does not talk about how in house program will fail to achieve its target.

D. Employees who get examined in their company's in-house medical program use their working time no more productively than those who do not get examined.
 —> Irrelevant. We have to talk about the absentee rate, not the productivity

E. Employees who get medical examinations during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not get examinations.
 —> Does not talk about how in house program will fail to achieve its target. Irrelevant

IMO Option B

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joohwangie · Answer

Employees that get a thorough medical examination twice a year take fewer sick days. Even employees who get examined only once a year take less sick time than those who do not get checked. Therefore, if companies instituted in-house medical examination programs, the absentee rate in those companies would decrease significantly.

higher the frequentcy of medical examination, lesser absent the employee. 
assumption: if companies have in-house medical examination program, the absent rate would decrease.
 
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?
what if people don't participate in the check up

A. Employees who get medical check ups during working hours occasionally feel ill for short periods of time after the examination. -- feel ill after the check up and they may be absent the next day; possible
B. Employees who are frequently absent are the least likely to cooperate with a corporate medical program. --then the number of absent remain the same. absent rate do not decrease if people do not participate in the medical program. correct
C. Employees who get a thorough medical examination once a week in their company's medical program usually also get checked by their private doctor. --irrelevant
D. Employees who get examined in their company's in-house medical program use their working time no more productively than those who do not get examined. --working time productivity does not relate with absent rate.
E. Employees who get medical examinations during working hours take slightly longer lunch breaks than employees who do not get examinations. --out scope

Therefore, B

Bunuel · Answer

Official Explanation

Correct Answer: B

The best answer is B. The argument states that absenteeism would decrease if an in-house medical program were instituted. However, if those employees who are most frequently absent are least likely to get examined, then the program is unlikely to solve the problem of absenteeism

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