Logical Reasoning

PT101 · S2 · Q2 All people prefer colors that they

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All people prefer colors that they can distinguish easily to colors that they have difficulty distinguishing.

Statements

All people prefer easily distinguished colors to tough to distinguish colors.

Infants can easily distinguish bright colors, but find it tough to distinguish subtle shades.

Adults do not find it tough to distinguish subtle shades.

Brightly colored toys for infants sell better than the same toy in subtle shades.

Evaluate

The overlapping ingredient being discussed in the first two sentences is "easy vs. difficult to distinguish a color", so we should pause to synthesize what's going on there.

Since we all prefer easier to distinguish colors, and infants think bright are easier to distinguish, then infants prefer bright colors.

We don't know what adults prefer, because we only know that they might prefer subtle shades (since they don't find them tough to distinguish).

The last sentence sounds like a manifestation of our Inference. We had inferred that "infants prefer bright colors", so it makes sense that a bright colored version of Toy X sells better than the subtle colored one.

Does this mean that the infant got to pick out his/her own toy?

Not necessarily.

Goal

Let's find the most provable option, probably something that reinforces the idea that "infants prefer bright colors".

2.

Which one of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by the information in the passage?

  1. Infants prefer bright primary colors

    Out of Scope: primary / secondary

    We have no means to judge this comparison since the information never distinguished between primary and secondary colors.

    3% picked this

  2. Color is the most important

    Too Strong: the most important

    This is way too strong a claim to derive. All we can prove from this paragraph is that "color could be a factor in determining which toys an infant prefers".

    8% picked this

  3. Individual infants do not have

    Unsupported: equal preference

    All we know is that infants prefer bright to subtle. We don't know whether they prefer primary to secondary, or whether they prefer Bright Color 1 to Bright Color 2.

    5% picked this

  4. Correct

    The sales of toys for

    Why this is right

    We know that "infants prefer bright colors" and we know "a brightly colored toy sells better than an otherwise identical one in a more subtle shade", so we can say there is at least one sense (bright is better than subtle) in which sales of toys (bright ones sells better than subtle ones) reflect infants' preferences (infants prefer bright to subtle).

    Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    81% picked this

  5. Toy makers study infants to

    Causal Speculation

    This type of trap answer is just inventing a backstory to explain the presented facts. That's not our job (unless every answer is worse that this). We don't have any support for whether any toy makers are engaged in studying infants. If they had actually studied infants and learned that infants prefer bright colors, then why would they have even manufactured the subtle-shade version of their toy?

    3% picked this

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