Logical Reasoning

PT102 · S3 · Q24 The United States ranks far behind

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The United States ranks far behind countries such as Sweden and Canada when it comes to workplace safety.

Statements

The US is way worse than Sweden and Canada when it comes to workplace safety.

However, all three countries have found that joint labor-mgmt committees on workplace safety greatly reduce workplace injuries.

In the US, only a few companies have these committees (these companies voluntarily created them). In Sweden and some of Canada, these committees are required for any company medium sized or bigger.

Evaluate

The information identifies a Causal Difference-Maker: these labor-mgmt safety committees cause safer workplaces.

The information describes two differences: US has fewer of these committees than Sweden / Canada do. US ranks way behind Sweden / Canada in workplace safety.

Inference questions love to use a difference to explain a difference.

It seems like one of the reasons the US ranks way behind Sweden / Canada is because these safety-improving committees are less common in the US than in the other two countries.

Goal

Look for a safely worded answer that reinforces this idea that having fewer joint labor-mgmt committees in the US is a reason why the US ranks lower in workplace safety.

24.

Which one of the following is supported by the information above?

  1. Correct

    The establishment of joint safety

    Why this is right

    Given that these committees only currently exist in "the few companies" that voluntarily established them, and given that we were told that these committees "have been very successful in reducing occupational injuries", it seems pretty fair to predict that if the US had more of these committees, then it would fewer occupational injuries.

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

    64% picked this

  2. A joint safety committee that

    Unsupported Comparison

    We don't have any usable information that allows us to think that these committees make more of a difference when they're required vs. when they're voluntary. In fact, the second sentence seems to undermine this, by saying "in all three countries (whether it's voluntary, like in the US, or required, like in Canada/Swededn), these committees are very successful in reducing injuries".

    32% picked this

  3. Workplace safety in Sweden and

    Unsupported Comparison

    We don't know anything about how the workplace safety of the three countries compared prior to these joint safety committees.

    2% picked this

  4. Joint safety committees had been

    Out of Scope: prior to passage

    We don't know anything about what was going on in Sweden or Canada prior to these joint safety committees.

    1% picked this

  5. The United States would surpass

    Too Strong: surpass

    What grounds do we have to say that the US would surpass Sweden and Canada by doing the same thing they're doing? It's more supportable to think we would catch up with Sweden and Canada. The US would need to have some advantage going for it, in order for us to think the US's workplace safety marks would be better, and we weren't told any such advantage.

    2% picked this

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