Logical Reasoning

PT121 · S4 · Q18 Leadership depends as much on

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Leadership depends as much on making one’s followers aware of their own importance as it does on conveying a vivid image of a collective goal.

Statements

Leadership depends equally on making your followers convinced they're important and conveying a vivid image of a collective goal.

If the people aren't convinced that their efforts are needed to accomplish the goal the people will or → not follow If the people aren't a leader convinced that their efforts will actually achieve that goal

Evaluate

The correct answer on Must Be False almost always follows one of two patterns:

1. Contradicts a conditional rule 2. Contradicts a possible inference we can make by combining claims

Can we make any inference by combining these two sentences?

No, not really. So let's just think about contradicting either individual statement.

Goal

Look for an answer saying that making followers aware of their importance is more / less important than conveying image of collective goal, when it comes to leadership.

Or, look for an answer contradicting the conditional; contradicting / refuting a conditional just means presenting an example where the trigger is true but the outcome isn't.

So, People aren't convinced their efforts are necessary to achieve this collective goal but are still following a leader.

Or, People aren't convinced their efforts will achieve this collective goal but are still following a leader.

18.

If all of the statements above are true, then which one of the following CANNOT be true?

  1. Some leaders who convince their

    Compatible

    This doesn't contradict anything. To contradict this, we would have need to have read that "any time the followers are convinced of the necessity of their efforts, the goal is always attained", and we never heard that.

    4% picked this

  2. One who succeeds in conveying

    Compatible

    This is very consistent with the passage. To contradict this, we would have needed to read that "whenever you successfully convey to followers how their efforts relate to attaining a collective goal, you fail to actually attain that goal." We never read that.

    4% picked this

  3. Only if one is a

    Compatible

    To contradict this, we would need to know that someone besides leaders must convince people of the necessity of their efforts for the attainment of a collective goal. The passage only talked about leaders, so we have no means of saying, "Not true! This non-leader also needs to convince people of the necessity of their efforts."

    8% picked this

  4. Sometimes people succeed in achieving

    Compatible

    To contradict this, we would need to have heard that "People succeed only if they've been convinced that by trying they will succeed". We never heard that.

    9% picked this

  5. Correct

    Sometimes people who remain unsure

    Why this is right

    This contradicts the conditional in the second sentence. It presents a situation where people are not convinced that their efforts are necessary for the attainment of a collective goal, but are still following a leader. The final sentence said that people only follow a leader if they are convinced.

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

    75% picked this

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