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The company now only hires persons with a post-graduate degree. Further, the company prefers to hire employees with significant work experience. Performance evaluations over the years have shown, however, that new hires with significant work experience outperform those without such experience, regardless of education level. Therefore, if the company relaxes the degree requirement and makes significant work experience mandatory, overall employee performance among new hires should increase.
Which one of the following is an assumption that would allow the conclusion above to be properly drawn?
A: New hires are evaluated by the company every six months to determine their employee performance.
B: Some persons with post-graduate degrees have been unable to gain significant work experience while completing their studies.
C: The company's hiring policy has been in place long enough to determine its long-term effects.
D: All performance evaluations by the company are done fairly and accurately.
E: Some new hires at the company have previously included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience.
Which one of the following is an assumption that would allow the conclusion above to be properly drawn?
A: New hires are evaluated by the company every six months to determine their employee performance.
B: Some persons with post-graduate degrees have been unable to gain significant work experience while completing their studies.
C: The company's hiring policy has been in place long enough to determine its long-term effects.
D: All performance evaluations by the company are done fairly and accurately.
E: Some new hires at the company have previously included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience.
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D: All performance evaluations by the company are done fairly and accurately.
E: Some new hires at the company have previously included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience
For D , even if the performance evaluations was not done fairly and accurately then the outcome of the evaluation
"Shows that new hires with significant work experience outperform those without such experience, regardless of education level."
It can still be true/partially true/false/no result ----- with this the conclusion can still be true/false . hence it does not break down
While
With E , if we negate --Some new hires at the company have previously NOT included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience, then the whole evaluation is based around experienced guys and hence the performance evaluation goes for a toss and hence the conclusion .
I would also request the experts not to simply mark it as nothing to do with the conclusion , the options are hitting the joining of the premise and conclusion.
Assumptions either supports the joining or, eliminates the idea that could weaken/undermine the conclusion , in this case it falls under the latter category
D: All performance evaluations by the company are done fairly and accurately.
E: Some new hires at the company have previously included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience
For D , even if the performance evaluations was not done fairly and accurately then the outcome of the evaluation
"Shows that new hires with significant work experience outperform those without such experience, regardless of education level."
It can still be true/partially true/false/no result ----- with this the conclusion can still be true/false . hence it does not break down
While
With E , if we negate --Some new hires at the company have previously NOT included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience, then the whole evaluation is based around experienced guys and hence the performance evaluation goes for a toss and hence the conclusion .
I would also request the experts not to simply mark it as nothing to do with the conclusion , the options are hitting the joining of the premise and conclusion.
Assumptions either supports the joining or, eliminates the idea that could weaken/undermine the conclusion , in this case it falls under the latter category
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Performance evaluations Shows that new hires with significant work experience outperform those without such experience, regardless of education level. Therefore, if the company relaxes the degree requirement and makes significant work experience mandatory, overall employee performance among new hires should increase.
The assumption followed is ;
A: New hires are evaluated by the company every six months to determine their employee performance. (No time interval is given regarding when performance is evaluated? Six months, six weeks or six years) (Insufficient)
B: Some persons with post-graduate degrees have been unable to gain significant work experience while completing their studies.(No facilitating statement to validate that the Post Graduate students have work experience or not, plus we can't say those inexperienced Post Graduate students were been hired by company before or now) (Incorrect)
C: The company's hiring policy has been in place long enough to determine its long-term effects.(We don't know whether the company's hiring policy is recently launched or is been in existence from before) (Incorrect)
D: All performance evaluations by the company are done fairly and accurately. (It has nothing to do with the increasing work efficiency of the company which is the main concern of the passage) (Incorrect)
E: Some new hires at the company have previously included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience.(The statement helps in concluding the statement that if the company put more focus on experienced people their work performance level will increase because hiring inexperienced people previously has done no good for them) (Cprrect)
Answer is E
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The assumption followed is ;
A: New hires are evaluated by the company every six months to determine their employee performance. (No time interval is given regarding when performance is evaluated? Six months, six weeks or six years) (Insufficient)
B: Some persons with post-graduate degrees have been unable to gain significant work experience while completing their studies.(No facilitating statement to validate that the Post Graduate students have work experience or not, plus we can't say those inexperienced Post Graduate students were been hired by company before or now) (Incorrect)
C: The company's hiring policy has been in place long enough to determine its long-term effects.(We don't know whether the company's hiring policy is recently launched or is been in existence from before) (Incorrect)
D: All performance evaluations by the company are done fairly and accurately. (It has nothing to do with the increasing work efficiency of the company which is the main concern of the passage) (Incorrect)
E: Some new hires at the company have previously included persons who have a post-graduate degree, but no significant work experience.(The statement helps in concluding the statement that if the company put more focus on experienced people their work performance level will increase because hiring inexperienced people previously has done no good for them) (Cprrect)
Answer is E
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