Consultant: If Whalley sticks

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal5% picked this

   There is no change Whalley could make to her platform that would win over more voters under 50 than it would

   We're only concerned with the relative number of under 50 vs. 50+ voters. This answer doesn't resolve whether there are more younger or older voters, so it won't allow us to prove that winning the older voters (by more than she loses the younger voters) will be a winning formula. This conclusion is about sticking with the current platform, so if she made any changes, it would be totally irrelevant to this conclusion.

   5%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal2% picked this

   The issues that most concern voters under 50 are different from those that most concern

   We're only concerned with the relative number of under 50 vs. 50+ voters. This answer doesn't resolve whether there are more younger or older voters, so it won't allow us to prove that winning the older voters (by more than she loses the younger voters) will be a winning formula.

   2%
3. C

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   If Whalley changes her platform, her opponent will not change his

   This conclusion is about sticking with the current platform, so if she made any changes, it would be totally irrelevant to this conclusion.

   1%
4. D

   Correct91% picked this

   There will be more voters in the election who are 50 and over than there will

   Why this is right

   We know that if Whalley sticks with her current platform, she'll win the 50+ group of voters by a bigger margin than she loses the under 50 voters. If that 50+ group of voters has more voters in it, then she will definitely end up with more votes. This answer rules out the possibility of our potential objection that there are more younger voters. Consider our chart from before, but with more voters in the 50+ group. vote for W vote for X 50+ 60% 40% (300ppl) 18-49 45% 55% (100ppl) W would get 225 out of the 400 votes, while X gets 175 votes. (Some of us might be bothered that this argument is not actually airtight, because they never told us that "the candidate with more votes wins the election". We might think, "Well, hey, that's just common sense", but the Presidential election in the U.S. is not won by the person with the most votes. That is just a weird feature of this and a couple other Sufficient Assumption questions. Usually, the logic of the correct answer is perfect, but sometimes the test writers are sloppy.)

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

   91%
5. E

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   Whalley would change her platform if she thought it would give her a better

   This conclusion is about sticking with the current platform, so if she made any changes, it would be totally irrelevant to this conclusion. We need to know the relative size of the group of voters under 50 vs. 50 and up.

   1%