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When a threat to life is common, as are automobile and industrial accidents, only unusual instances tend to be prominently reported by the news media. Instances of rare threats, such as product tampering, however, are seen as news by reporters and are universally reported in featured stories. People in general tend to estimate the risk of various threats by how frequently those threats come to their attention.
If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of them?
(A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
(B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
(C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
(D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
(E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of them?
(A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
(B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
(C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
(D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
(E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
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Originally posted by Thelionking1234 on 29 May 2020, 21:39.
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Let's start with some basics first
3 Steps to attack any CR question:
Step 1: Read the passage carefully. See whether passage is an argument or just a fact set. If it has conclusion then it is an argument, and in such cases focus more on conclusion than on premises.
Step 2: Read question stem
Some test mentors suggest to read question first in CR and then an argument, but I would suggest to read and understand argument first. Because of following 2 reasons:
1) If you read question stem first, you would jump over some things in argument to get an answer. But the tricky part in CR is to understand an argument first.
2) Even if you read the question first, in most of the cases you will end up in reading question stem again after reading an argument. So you have read question twice... invested 5 seconds twice X number of questions = Loss of precious time.
Step 3: Attack question according to it's type.
Here it is inference question, so correct answer choice must be verifiable from argument/fact sets.
When a threat to life is common, as are automobile and industrial accidents, only unusual instances tend to be prominently reported by the news media. Instances of rare threats, such as product tampering, however, are seen as news by reporters and are universally reported in featured stories. People in general tend to estimate the risk of various threats by how frequently those threats come to their attention.
If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of them?
(A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
(B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
(C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
(D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
(E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
Most verifiable answer choice here is C. So correct answer is C.
Let's see why
Option: (A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
Out of scope. Not verifiable.
Option: (B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
Out of scope. Not verifiable
Option: (C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
Some might say, overestimate is wrong. It is not mentioned any where in an argument, but this is the only closest option to the argument and hence correct.
Option: (D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
New Information. Wrong
Option: (E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
Out of Scope. Not verifiable.
Hope it helps...
3 Steps to attack any CR question:
Step 1: Read the passage carefully. See whether passage is an argument or just a fact set. If it has conclusion then it is an argument, and in such cases focus more on conclusion than on premises.
Step 2: Read question stem
Some test mentors suggest to read question first in CR and then an argument, but I would suggest to read and understand argument first. Because of following 2 reasons:
1) If you read question stem first, you would jump over some things in argument to get an answer. But the tricky part in CR is to understand an argument first.
2) Even if you read the question first, in most of the cases you will end up in reading question stem again after reading an argument. So you have read question twice... invested 5 seconds twice X number of questions = Loss of precious time.
Step 3: Attack question according to it's type.
Here it is inference question, so correct answer choice must be verifiable from argument/fact sets.
When a threat to life is common, as are automobile and industrial accidents, only unusual instances tend to be prominently reported by the news media. Instances of rare threats, such as product tampering, however, are seen as news by reporters and are universally reported in featured stories. People in general tend to estimate the risk of various threats by how frequently those threats come to their attention.
If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of them?
(A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
(B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
(C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
(D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
(E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
Most verifiable answer choice here is C. So correct answer is C.
Let's see why
Option: (A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
Out of scope. Not verifiable.
Option: (B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
Out of scope. Not verifiable
Option: (C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
Some might say, overestimate is wrong. It is not mentioned any where in an argument, but this is the only closest option to the argument and hence correct.
Option: (D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
New Information. Wrong
Option: (E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
Out of Scope. Not verifiable.
Hope it helps...
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The correct answer is option C.
Understanding the passage
- In avenues where a threat to life is common (say auto accidents, industrial accidents), only the unusual cases tend to be prominently reported by the news media
- i.e. more mundane threats are not reported as much
- Example: product tampering leading to an auto accident is reported widely, as compared to a more mundane threat (say, general carelessness causing an auto accident)
- People tend to estimate the risk of threats on the basis of how frequently these threats come to their attention
- i.e.
1. News media tends to prominently report rare threats, and therefore less prominently report mundane threats.
2. People estimate the risk of a threat based on how frequently they hear about it.
What can we infer from 1 and 2?
People who get their information majorly from news media would tend to over-estimate the risk of a rare threat, and underestimate the risk of a common threat - because they hear more about the rare threat than they do about the common threat.
Question Stem: If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of them?. Classic Inference Question!
Option Choice Analysis
(A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
Governmental action is completely out of the scope of the passage. This entity is not mentioned anywhere in the passage, we cannot make any inference about it.
(B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
Not something that we can infer. All we know for sure is that people will magnify the risk of a rare threat if they get their information mainly from news media. The actual severity of the threat (how dreadful it can be) or control over it (can it be stopped/minimized?) is out of the scope of what the passage talks about.
(C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
Exactly what we inferred from the passage. Correct answer.
(D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
From the passage, we only know that reporters tend to report more on rare threats. We cannot infer that rare threats are also immediate past and future threats (we have no information to make such an inference), hence this option cannot be inferred.
(E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
Completely irrelevant to this passage. Resources to tackle the threats have nothing to do with how people tend to estimate the risk of the threat.
Hope this helps.
Understanding the passage
- In avenues where a threat to life is common (say auto accidents, industrial accidents), only the unusual cases tend to be prominently reported by the news media
- i.e. more mundane threats are not reported as much
- Example: product tampering leading to an auto accident is reported widely, as compared to a more mundane threat (say, general carelessness causing an auto accident)
- People tend to estimate the risk of threats on the basis of how frequently these threats come to their attention
- i.e.
1. News media tends to prominently report rare threats, and therefore less prominently report mundane threats.
2. People estimate the risk of a threat based on how frequently they hear about it.
What can we infer from 1 and 2?
People who get their information majorly from news media would tend to over-estimate the risk of a rare threat, and underestimate the risk of a common threat - because they hear more about the rare threat than they do about the common threat.
Question Stem: If the statements above are true, which one of the following is most strongly supported on the basis of them?. Classic Inference Question!
Option Choice Analysis
(A) Whether governmental action will be taken to lessen a common risk depends primarily on the prominence given to the risk by the news media.
Governmental action is completely out of the scope of the passage. This entity is not mentioned anywhere in the passage, we cannot make any inference about it.
(B) People tend to magnify the risk of a threat if the threat seems particularly dreadful or if those who would be affected have no control over it.
Not something that we can infer. All we know for sure is that people will magnify the risk of a rare threat if they get their information mainly from news media. The actual severity of the threat (how dreadful it can be) or control over it (can it be stopped/minimized?) is out of the scope of what the passage talks about.
(C) Those who get their information primarily from the news media tend to overestimate the risk of uncommon threats relative to the risk of common threats.
Exactly what we inferred from the passage. Correct answer.
(D) Reporters tend not to seek out information about long-range future threats but to concentrate their attention on the immediate past and future.
From the passage, we only know that reporters tend to report more on rare threats. We cannot infer that rare threats are also immediate past and future threats (we have no information to make such an inference), hence this option cannot be inferred.
(E) The resources that are spent on avoiding product tampering are greater than the resources that are spent on avoiding threats that stem from the weather.
Completely irrelevant to this passage. Resources to tackle the threats have nothing to do with how people tend to estimate the risk of the threat.
Hope this helps.
