History provides many examples

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct72% picked this

   People correctly believe that technological innovations often cause

   Why this is right

   This provides an alternate reason for why employees have historically resisted technological innovations. This answer even adds the modifier "correctly" so that we take this alternative hypothesis even more seriously.

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

   72%
2. B

   Opposite4% picked this

   People are often reluctant to take on

   This strengthens the author's notion that people are vulnerable to inertia, and resist change.

   4%
3. C

   No Impact / Too Weak: some9% picked this

   Some examples of technological innovation have been embraced

   A ton of Weaken questions involve evidence that is imperfect: correlations / trends / generalizations / averages. These things have exceptions. Our author just says that there are many examples of people resisting technological innovation. He never promised that people always resist technological innovation, so pointing out that "at least once" people embraced technological innovation has minimal, if any, impact on the conversation.

   9%
4. D

   Unclear Impact10% picked this

   People tend to adapt easily to gradually implemented

   In the sense that this answer presents people adapting to technological innovations, it goes against his evidence, in which people are reluctant to embrace technological innovations. But, this also says gradually implemented innovations. This actually strengthens the author's notion that people have a strong sense of inertia and thus that any changes we wish to make must be slowly rolled out.

   10%
5. E

   No Impact / Opposite4% picked this

   People correctly believe that technological innovations almost always increase

   Increasing productivity isn't logically connected to caring more about inertia or caring more about safety / comfort. If anything, though, we would stretch increased productivity to mean more comfort, and so if people correctly believe that technological innovation will bring more comfort (increased productivity = less work to produce a given amount of output), then this would Strengthen the author's conclusion. Since people are opposing these innovations, it would look like they're prioritizing something above increased comfort.

   4%