Logical Reasoning

PT127 · S2 · Q3 Acme Corporation offers unskilled

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Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement.

Conclusion

Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement.

Evidence (as 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.

Evaluate

We would probably react to this by thinking,

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.

Goal

The author wants Ms. Garon's story to seem indicative of a company that gives employees the opportunity to come in, unskilled, and ultimately climb the ranks to upper management.

We need to pick an answer suggesting that the company doesn't have a lot of upward mobility, or an answer that makes an excuse for Ms. G's upward mobility.

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 offers an alternate explanation for Ms. G's triumphant rise to the top: She didn't come in as an unskilled worker, who took advantage of Acme's wonderful opportunities for advancement. Rather, she came in as a SKILLED worker. She was a top business school graduate! She briefly worked at the lowest rungs of the company to better understand its inner workings. But she is not an example of an entry-level hire who climbed their way to the top.

    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.

    10% 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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