It is likely that most of the new

Answer choices

1. A

   Weakens, if anything2% picked this

   Wilke & Wilke have produced more new shows for this season than they

   This points to a difference between last year and this year, and differences are potentially going to weaken (unless the difference is that this year's shows are even worse than last year's shows).

   2%
2. B

   Weaker than the Correct Answer14% picked this

   Most of the shows that Wilke & Wilke produced last year

   This does something, in the sense that it seems to draw a similarity between this year's W&W shows and last year's. However, we need to know about the new shows that W&W produced last season. This is just talking about "most of the shows they produced" which can include many long-running shows. If we knew that "most of the new shows they produced last season were police drama" then it would draw a sharper similarity between this year's crop of new shows and the failed crop of last year's new shows.

   14%
3. C

   Weaker than Correct Answer12% picked this

   None of the shows that Wilke & Wilke produced last year that were not canceled

   This says: If it wasn't canceled, then it wasn't a police drama. So by contrapositive, if they made any police dramas last year, then those police dramas were canceled. This suffers from the same thing (B) does, which is that it's not about the new shows from last season, just any of the shows from last season. We don't know if any of the new shows W&W did last year were police dramas, so this rule doesn't really tell us anything yet.

   12%
4. D

   Correct67% picked this

   All of the new shows that Wilke & Wilke produced last year that were canceled

   Why this is right

   This establishes the most relevant similarities. The new shows that got canceled last year were all police dramas. All the new shows this year are police dramas. So there's a lot of reason to think a similar outcome is probable (especially given the further context that police dramas have not been doing well in general for several years).

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

   67%
5. E

   No Impact5% picked this

   None of the most popular television shows last year were

   We don't get much by finding out traits of the most popular TV shows last year, since this argument is just about whether or not a show will be popular enough to avoid being canceled. You don't have to be #1 in popularity to avoid being canceled. We already knew that most police dramas haven't been popular in recent years, so it doesn't feel like learning that "the top 5 shows from last year weren't police dramas" tells us anything we didn't already suspect.

   5%