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Please provide your feedback on this

dalmba · Answer

Alrighty:

A) Seems good actually. Satisfies both findings. 
 B) Out of scope, since the findings were last year, i.e. has nothing to do with this year or 'year over year' comparisons
C) Totally negates the second finding (all subscribers are people, but not all people are subscribers)
D) "Dollar amount" throws this out of scope.
E) Doesn't reference age, so it's kind of useless.

So I'd be going with A.

dimitri92 · Answer

I choose A too but thats not the OA

dalmba · Answer

Then we both need to read it over a lot more carefully

dalmba · Answer

Okay, so rejecting A now makes more sense to me after reading carefully.

If it were true the percentage of the first finding would be >50%.

So now we'll have to go through the reason for rejecting the others to see where the flaw is.
Also I think we need to be looking more closely at what the findings (if true) tell us:

If you're a subscriber then you're more likely to buy if you're OVER 35, but generally, most orders are place by under 35s. So something's going on here such that there's some special characteristic of being a subscriber that interacts with your age and buying decision.

B I still don't see how what's going on NOW has anything to do with this.
C can't be true. It would satisfy (1) but negate (2).
D Dollar amount is still a scope thing. 
 E Ahhhh look at this. I was thrown off because it doesn't talk about age BUT, looking at the characteristics of the findings we see that this statement fits well with the phenomenon we observe. (2) says that most ads were bought by under 35s, yet only 30% of under 35 subscribers bought ads. So there's gotta be   a lot of non-subscribed   under 35's buying ads! Bingo Bango Boom. If that's not the OA I'll probably implode.

Edit: by "buying ads" I meant placed an order or whatever. You know what I mean.

dimitri92 · Answer

ahhhh....good job ...but see where i failed was reading the question ...for the first part instead of writing 35 on paper i wrote 25 and read the second part as 35 alrite. This was a stupid mistake but it happens

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seekmba · Answer

I would go for E.

What is the OA?

ykaiim · Answer

Only E is the valid one. Rest are bringing new info.

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