In GenSect Solutions, majority of the IT professionals work on Project

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In GenSect Solutions, majority of the IT professionals work on Projects involving coding. A survey done last year found that as high as 25% of female IT professionals but only 5% of male ones committed errors while writing codes. The findings of the survey clearly indicate that a longer stint at writing codes and therefore a greater proficiency in coding makes male IT professionals much better at writing codes than their female counterparts.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is not significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts.

B. The male IT professional do not constitute a significantly larger percentage of IT professionals at GenSect Solutions than the female ones.

C. The higher percentage of errors in newly joined IT professionals as compared to that in employees with a few years’ experience is attributable to the greater amount of coding experience.

D. The male IT professionals, in general do a comparable amount of coding with reference to the female IT professionals.

E. The client companies of GenSect prefer their projects to be handled by male IT professionals because of the lower error margins

glagad · Answer

Premise:
- % of errors made by Female Coders > % of errors made by Male Coders

Conclusion:
More experience -> Less Errors (More proficiency in Coding)

What is the assumption??

Pre-thinking
- Missing Link bw Premise & Conclusion is the  premise is in conclusion  & Conclusion considers  number of errors 
- Author equates the same by considering them and saying that female are not better coders than male

Our Assumption should be on similar lines, i.e. which connects the missing linkage

A. The per capita coding work done by male IT professionals is not significantly lower than that done by their female counterparts.
>> The option states that overall coding work done by male population is not significantly lower (or in other words equal) than coding work done by female population.  Inline with our prethinking

B. The male IT professional do not constitute a significantly larger percentage of IT professionals at GenSect Solutions than the female ones.
>> Number of Male professionals > Number of female professionals.  This can't support the conclusion

C. The higher percentage of errors in newly joined IT professionals as compared to that in employees with a few years’ experience is attributable to the greater amount of coding experience. 
>> Higher % of errors = Greater coding experience.  Doesnt affect the conclusion at all

D. The male IT professionals, in general do a comparable amount of coding with reference to the female IT professionals.
>> Coding done by Males = Coding done by female -  It kind of strengthens the conclusion

E. The client companies of GenSect prefer their projects to be handled by male IT professionals because of the lower error margins
>>  Irrelevant

Nidhibatra · Answer

Can someone explain why A is correct and not B or D?

Sajjad1994 · Answer

This is really a hard question and options A and D are very close. Tough Call.

According to the question 25% of female IT professionals committed errors while coding while Only 5% of male IT professionals committed errors while coding. It also concludes that longer coding experience brings greater proficiency and hence male professionals are better at coding than females.

It is also assumed that the difference in errors is due to experience/proficiency, not due to something else (like males doing less coding work per person, so fewer chances to commit errors). If males did far less coding per person, then their lower error percentage might not mean they are more proficient, maybe they just have fewer opportunities to make errors.

Eliminate the answer choices.

A:  This directly matches the needed assumption.

B:  Talks about percentage of males vs. females in the company which is irrelevant to per capita coding work comparison. Hence Out.

C:  Talks about new vs. experienced employees and not directly about the male–female comparison in the given data. Out.

D:  This looks almost the same as A. Lets keep it.

Now between  A  and  D , they are very close, but  A  is more precise and focued (“per capita coding work”). On the other hand  D  is a bit off-road.  A  is more clearer in its direction.

Answer: A

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