While 65 percent of the

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong / Unrelated to Goal6% picked this

   The poll was intentionally designed to favor Perkins

   This answer implies intentional design to favor Perkins, a claim not made in the argument. The conclusion is about the results of the poll, whereas this answer doesn't address the results of the poll. And the argument questions the poll's accuracy due to the sampling methodology, not deliberate bias.

   6%
2. B

   Opposing Idea / Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   Samuels’s supporters believe that they were probably not adequately represented in

   This answer presumes to speak for Samuels's supporters, which the argument does not do. The argument focuses on questioning the poll's accuracy due to its sampling method, not on what Samuels's supporters might think.

   3%
3. C

   Correct88% picked this

   The poll’s results probably do not accurately represent the opinions of the voters in

   Why this is right

   This accurately captures the main conclusion about the poll's legitimacy. If we're saying that the result of a poll are dubious, we're saying "we can't trust that what the poll says is an accurate reflection of reality".

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

   88%
4. D

   Inference-Bait / Unrelated to Goal0% picked this

   Samuels is quite likely to have a good chance of winning

   This tries to go one step farther than the conclusion: "If the author thinks the poll that favors Perkins had dubious results, she must think that Perkins isn't actually favored to win the election, so Samuels must be." We're not being asked to figure out what the author might say "next". We need to just match the actual conclusion: "the poll results are dubious". This answer isn't about poll results, so it can't be a match.

   0%
5. E

   Unstated / Inference-Bait3% picked this

   Those who designed the poll should have considered more carefully where to

   This doesn't look anything like "the poll results are dubious". Since it's not a claim about the poll results, it can't match our conclusion. This is designed to read the author's mind and say something else she'd probably believe. Since she believes the poll was not representative based on where it was conducted, she might presumably say that "the pollsters should have thought more about conducting this in a place that didn't skew towards Perkins". Main Conclusion isn't about invisible ideas. It's about matching the visible conclusion.

   3%