Consultant: Children taught using

Answer choices

1. A

   Weakens, if anything3% picked this

   most of the employees at Grodex began in high school to learn the creative thinking skills that they

   This answer makes it seem like we're not dependent on these employee-training seminars for fostering creative thinking skills; the latter is taken care of for most employees by their high school education. The whole selling point of implementing these new methods was their potential for teaching creative thinking, but if our workforce already comes to us with creative thinking skills, then that diminishes the incentive for using the new methods.

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2. B

   Weak Impact / Bad Comparison5% picked this

   corporations that conduct training seminars for employees using innovative educational methods are generally more successful than are corporations that

   This answer is pretty tempting at first, because it seems to be saying something positive about these new methods that would strengthen Grodex's desire to conduct its employee-training seminars using these methods. However, a compelling comparison would be "corporations that conduct training seminars using these methods are generally more successful than are corporations that conduct training seminars using other methods." That sort of comparison would make it seem like these innovative methods might be better than the other options. But the comparison here is between using these methods and doing no training seminars at all. If you're trying to tell me that I should buy a certain LSAT resource because it's "better than not studying at all", then that's a weak testimonial for that resource. Moreover, the correlation in this answer choice might really just be telling us that more successful corporations have the budget and scale to run training seminars. (In other words, it's not that the training seminar is causing the success; the success is allowing the training seminar to happen.)

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3. C

   No Impact0% picked this

   less than half of the employees at Grodex regularly attend the

   This answer feel more like a weakener, because if hardly any employees show up to these training seminars, then who cares what educational methods our seminars employ. Technically, it's not really a reason for or against using these new methods.

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4. D

   Correct83% picked this

   the effects of teaching methods in the education of adults are generally very similar to the effects of those methods

   Why this is right

   The author was Assuming a Similarity. She was thinking that, "If these new methods help children to think more creatively, then they will also help adults working for Grodex to think more creatively." A potential objection to this conclusion could have been, "No, Grodex shouldn't use these methods. These are good for 5-10 year olds, but they wouldn't work on adults." This answer rules out such an objection by telling us that the effects of these teaching methods are generally similar, whether it's kids or adults. So this gives Grodex reason to think that these methods generally would help an adult learn to think more creatively.

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

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5. E

   No Impact9% picked this

   knowing how to think creatively helps people to compensate for deficiencies

   This might feel tempting, as though it's saying "Guess what --- the thing that these new methods are good for (improving creative thinking) is actually helpful for people who have bad memorization." However, Grodex doesn't necessarily have any employees who have "deficiencies in memorization skills", so this doesn't really pose any benefit to Grodex. We were just told that most jobs at Grodex don't require strong memorization skills. That's not the same as being told that most employees have weak memorization skills.

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