Most people who have taken

Answer choices

1. A

   Reinforces Paradox Too Weak: Some11% picked this

   Some of the people who are most efficient in the workplace are not among

   The work "some" is almost never correct on Strengthen, Weaken, or Paradox, because some means 'at least one'. An answer that only offers one data point doesn't have much impact (usually). We're trying to explain why there was a disconnect between organization and efficiency for the people who took these seminars. Their organization improved but their efficiency didn't. This answer reinforces the disconnect from the opposite direction: some people improve their efficiency even though they aren't organized. But we still don't have an explanation for why these things are disconnected. We're just saying twice that they are disconnected. And it's only one data point.

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2. B

   No Impact1% picked this

   Most people whose organizational skills in the workplace are below average do not take seminars for building organizational

   This is telling us about people who didn't take the seminar, whereas we need to explain why the people who did take the seminar failed to increase their efficiency, even though they boosted their organizational skills.

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3. C

   No Impact1% picked this

   Most seminars for building organizational skills in the workplace are designed for people who have been

   For this answer to do the job, we would need to be able to argue that "because they're in management training, being more organized doesn't make them more efficient." Why would that be? Is there some common sense link from "management training" to "being organized doesn't make you more efficient"?

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4. D

   No Impact6% picked this

   Most people who have taken a seminar for building organizational skills in the workplace have below-average organizational skills before

   This answer is very similar to (B). (B) told us that people who are already decent at organizing generally don't go to these seminars, and (D) tell us that most people who take these seminars are not yet decent at organizing. Regardless of what their starting points were, compared to an average person, we know that the seminar improved their organization, and we want to know why that didn't come with a boost of efficiency too.

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5. E

   Correct81% picked this

   Most people who have taken a seminar for building organizational skills in the workplace consequently expend a great amount

   Why this is right

   This matches our prediction. For these people who took the seminar, their organization went up, but since they expended a great amount of time organizing, whatever extra efficiency being organized provided was offset by all the extra time it took to get organized. Maybe it used to take them 4 hours to do job X. The seminar showed them that when they're organized, that job only takes 3 hours. Unfortunately, getting organized takes 1 hour, so they're just as efficient now as they were before (it still takes 4 hours to do the job).

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

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