In countries where companies offer financial bonuses for employee suggestions that improve efficiency, reports of such suggestions are twice as frequent as they are in countries where no bonuses are offered.
At present, there is no reliable way to determine whether a reported suggestion would genuinely lead to improved efficiency, so it is true that low-quality or insincere suggestions cannot be readily identified. Nevertheless, these facts do not warrant a conclusion
that has been drawn by some commentators: that in the countries with higher rates of reported suggestions, half of the reported suggestions are of little real value. What these commentators are overlooking is that in countries where no bonuses are offered, employees often have little incentive to submit suggestions that could in fact improve efficiency.
In the argument given, the two
boldfaced portions play which of the following roles?
A. The first is a judgment advanced in support of the main conclusion of the argument; the second is that main conclusion.
B. Each is a judgment advanced in support of the main conclusion of the argument.
C. The first is an intermediate conclusion drawn in order to challenge a position opposed by the argument; the second is the position taken by the argument.
D. The first is a position that the argument accepts as true; the second states a claim that the argument disputes.
E. The first states the position taken by the argument; the second is a consideration presented in order to support that position.
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