In a study, parents were asked to rate each television program

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In a study, parents were asked to rate each television program that their children watched. The programs were rated for violent content on a scale of one to five, with “one” indicating no violence and “five” indicating a great deal. The number of times their children were disciplined in school was also recorded. Children who watched programs with an average violence rating of three or higher were 50 percent more likely to have been disciplined than other children.

Each of the following, if true, helps to explain the statistical relationship described above EXCEPT:

(A) Children who are excited by violent action programs on television tend to become bored with schoolwork and to express their boredom in an unacceptable fashion.

(B) When parents watch violent programs on television with their children, those children become more likely to regard antisocial behavior as legitimate.

(C) Parents who rated their children’s television viewing low on violence had become desensitized to the violence on television by watching too much of it.

(D) Children learn from violent programs on television to disrespect society’s prohibitions of violence and, as a result, are more likely than other children to disrespect the school disciplinary codes.

(E) Parents who do not allow their children to watch programs with a high level of violence are more likely than other parents to be careful about other aspects of their children’s behavior.

AjitJain1710 · Answer

Why option C is correct?

All the options seems like they are not explaining the statistical results. Can anyone help?

madkilla07 · Answer

The passage follows the structure of watching violence leads to children being disciplined more often at school. All options except C explain this relationship. C, on the other hand, explains how parents watching violence affect their rating/how much violence their child watches. But this has no effect in explaining the relationship between watching violence and being disciplined more often.

AjitJain1710 · Answer

How are other options explaining that volence is leading to children being disciplined. For ex: D says children learn to disrespect society's prohibition of violence. How is this leading to children being disciplined?

madkilla07 · Answer

(A) Children who are excited by violent action programs on television tend to become bored with schoolwork and to express their boredom in an unacceptable fashion. - They get bored by schoolwork compared to watching violence. So they act in a violent manner and end up being diciplined.

(B) When parents watch violent programs on television with their children, those children become more likely to regard antisocial behavior as legitimate. - Kids think violence is normal so do it more often.

(C) Parents who rated their children’s television viewing low on violence had become desensitized to the violence on television by watching too much of it. - Irrelevant.

(D) Children learn from violent programs on television to disrespect society’s prohibitions of violence and, as a result, are more likely than other children to disrespect the school disciplinary codes. - Children watch people break the law and know of ways to do so and hence are more likely to act in that way.

(E) Parents who do not allow their children to watch programs with a high level of violence are more likely than other parents to be careful about other aspects of their children’s behavior. -Children of parents who pay attention to them are overall not going to end up being disciplined due to their upbringing.

As you can see A,B,D,E states a hypothesis as to why the children are doing what they are doing. Therfore helps to explain the statistical relationship.

unraveled · Answer

In a study, parents were asked to rate each television program that their children watched. The programs were rated for violent content on a scale of one to five, with “one” indicating no violence and “five” indicating a great deal. The number of times their children were disciplined in school was also recorded. Children who watched programs with an average violence rating of three or higher were 50 percent more likely to have been disciplined than other children.

Each of the following, if true, helps to explain the statistical relationship described above EXCEPT:

(A) Children who are excited by violent action programs on television  tend to become bored with schoolwork and to express their boredom in an unacceptable fashion . - WRONG. What fashion we don't know but it explans that they do act somehow weird.

(B) When parents watch violent programs on television with their children,  those children become more likely to regard antisocial behavior as legitimate . - WRONG. Like D only.

(C)  Parents  who rated their children’s television viewing low on violence  had become desensitized to the violence  on television by watching too much of it. - CORRECT. They thought of taking things into hands but became the very thing they didn't want their choildren to become.

(D) Children learn from violent programs on television to disrespect society’s prohibitions of violence and, as a result,  are more likely than other children to disrespect  the school disciplinary codes. - WRONG. Explains in otherwise manner.

(E) Parents who do not allow their children to watch programs with a high level of violence  are more likely than other parents to be careful about other aspects of their children’s behavior . - WRONG. The extra carefulness lead to their children being more controlled.

In EXCEPT kind of questions the answer choice would either remain neutral or simply make thingss worst in explaining the relationship/ambiguity. In this case the ambiguity is the relationship between higher rated program and being non-violent against general notion. The right answer can be found by odd one out.

However, the question is oddly odd. Most likely an issue with the stem if at all there is one.

Answer C.

asmba · Answer

Took some time to understand the argument and statements, but well!

(A) and (D) indirectly say that children who watch violent progs are usually undisciplined so these statements clearly explain the relationship 
(B) Says that children who watch violent progs w parents engage in antisocial behavior which may need to be disciplined so somewhat explains the relationship in the argument 
(E) Says that parents who do not permit their kids to watch violent progs are more likely to take care of other elements of their child's behavior (such as discipline) so indirectly helps to explain the relationship posed in the argument 
 
(C) says that parents of such children have watched so much violence on television that they are no longer shocked to see absurd stuff which is why their violence rating for their children is low, but the children may actually be consuming very violent content - the parents because of their bias have given a wrong rating, so this in no way lends support to the argument

mkeshri185 · Answer

I did not get the passage. It says those who watch more violent movies tends to get more disciplined. And every option says that children are becoming violent or doing wrong works like that. So how does they be called disciplined? Discplined means they behave properly as per my knowledge

GMATQuizMaster · Answer

Hi  mkeshri185 ,

Let me help.

The phrase " more likely to have been disciplined" conveys that these kids were  more likely to have received punishment or corrective action  from school authorities for misbehavior.

Please re-analyze the passage with this understanding, 
 Regards

DishaAgarwal12 · Answer

Both B and C seem wrong. Kindly help

AbhishekP220108 · Answer

Hi  DishaAgarwal12

We have to find the premise which cannot resolve the argument

(B) When parents watch violent programs on television with their children, those children become more likely to regard antisocial behavior as legitimate.- it is resolving by stating that those children who watch violent shows with their parents, they are more likely to behave antisocially

(C) Parents who rated their children’s television viewing low on violence had become desensitized to the violence on television by watching too much of it.- whereas this option talks about the parent, these parents become desensitizer. Not talking about the children behavior hence this one is not helping

Hope this helps

guddo · Answer

In a study, parents were asked to rate each television program that their children watched. The programs were rated for violent content on a scale of one to five, with “one” indicating no violence and “five” indicating a great deal. The number of times their children were disciplined in school was also recorded. Children who watched programs with an average violence rating of three or higher were 50 percent more likely to have been disciplined than other children.
 
 Each of the following, if true, helps to explain the statistical relationship described above EXCEPT:

The stimulus gives only a correlation: children who watched more violent TV were more likely to be disciplined in school. So the correct answer is the choice that does  not help explain that correlation . A choice can help either by saying violent TV contributes to school misbehavior, or by saying some third factor makes both things more likely.

(A) Children who are excited by violent action programs on television tend to become bored with schoolwork and to express their boredom in an unacceptable fashion.

This helps explain the correlation. It gives a causal path from violent programs to unacceptable behavior in school.

(B) When parents watch violent programs on television with their children, those children become more likely to regard antisocial behavior as legitimate.

This also helps explain the correlation. If violent TV makes children more accepting of antisocial behavior, that could make school discipline more likely.

(C) Parents who rated their children’s television viewing low on violence had become desensitized to the violence on television by watching too much of it.

This does not help explain the correlation. If these parents underrate violent content, then some children placed in the “low violence” group may actually be watching more violent programs than reported. That would blur the difference between the groups, not explain why the higher-violence group had more discipline problems.

(D) Children learn from violent programs on television to disrespect society’s prohibitions of violence and, as a result, are more likely than other children to disrespect the school disciplinary codes.

This helps explain the correlation. It gives a direct reason why watching violent TV could lead to more discipline in school.

(E) Parents who do not allow their children to watch programs with a high level of violence are more likely than other parents to be careful about other aspects of their children’s behavior.

This helps explain the correlation through a third factor. More careful parents may both restrict violent TV and manage their children’s behavior better, leading to fewer school discipline problems.

Answer: (C)

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