Principle: Employees of telemarketing

Answer choices

1. A

   Weakens, if anything6% picked this

   Any employee of a telemarketing agency is likely to be able to determine whether trying to talk someone into buying the product of a

   The application of the principle is assuming that trying to talk someone into buying X's product, even after they've said "no thanks", is going to engender animosity (predispose someone to dislike). That's why the application is thinking, "telemarketers should not do this". This answer, meanwhile, is saying, "Well .... it's okay if they do it. They can tell which customers are likely to get mad and start hating the client, which ones aren't. Let's just trust the telemarketers' judgment about whom to do this or not do this to."

   6%
2. B

   Out of Scope: certain4% picked this

   Some employees of telemarketing agencies are unlikely to be certain about whether trying to talk someone into buying the product of a client of

   The principle has nothing to do with whether or not the employees are certain / uncertain that pushing a customer will engender animosity. The language of the principle is just, "if it will engender animosity towards the client, then telemarketers should never do it".

   4%
3. C

   Correct85% picked this

   Any employee of a telemarketing agency who tries to get someone to buy the product of a client of the agency after the person

   Why this is right

   This establishes that "trying to get someone to buy a client's product after they've already said no thanks will predispose the person to dislike the client". Anything that predisposes someone to dislike the client should never be done, so the application is correct. If a telemarketer has been told by someone that they don't want a client's product, the telemarketer should not try to get them to buy the product.

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

   85%
4. D

   Opposite of our Goal2% picked this

   Some people that an employee of a telemarketing agency calls to ask them to buy the product of a client of the agency will

   In order to apply this principle, we need to establish that trying to talk someone into buying a client's product will predispose people to dislike that client. This answer is talking about people who aren't predisposed to dislike.

   2%
5. E

   Irrelevant Comparison: more likely to refuse4% picked this

   People who are already predisposed to dislike the client of a telemarketing agency are more likely to refuse to buy the product of that

   In order to apply this principle, we need to establish that trying to talk someone into buying a client's product will predispose people to dislike that client. This answer is talking about people who are already predisposed to dislike, and it doesn't connect predisposed to dislike to "trying to talk someone who's already refused into buying a client's product".

   4%