Logical Reasoning

PT127 · S2 · Q3 Acme Corporation offers unskilled

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Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement.

Evidence

The president of the Acme Corporation, Ms. Garon, worked as an assembly line worker, an entry level position requiring no special skills, when she first started at Acme.

Conclusion

Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement.

Evaluate

We would probably react to this by thinking, "That's great for Ms. G, but is that a common thing? Or is she an unrepresentative sample of someone who started at the bottom and made it all the way to the top?

Could there be an alternate explanation (her Dad owns the company) that she was able to go from entry-level to president? Maybe her story wouldn't apply to most employees.

3.

Which one of the following statements, if true, most weakens the reasoning above?

  1. Acme's vice president of operations

    Supports a Premise

    This reinforces the phenomenon, but it does not address the explanation provided by the argument.

    0% picked this

  2. Correct

    Acme regularly hires top graduates

    Why this is right

    This weakens the argument by providing an alternative explanation than that which is offered in the argument for why Ms. Garon, who is now the president of the company, once worked as an assembly line worker.

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

    88% picked this

  3. Acme promotes its own employees

    Strengthen

    This supports the argument’s explanation.

    1% picked this

  4. Ms. Garon worked at Acme

    Out of Scope

    How long it takes for the opportunities at the Acme Corporation to materialize is not relevant to whether they exist at all.

    11% picked this

  5. Acme pays entry-level employees slightly

    Out of Scope

    The pay offered to entry-level employees is not relevant to whether the Acme Corporation provides opportunities for advancement.

    0% picked this

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