Songwriters get much of the money

Answer choices

1. A

   Reversed Logic Too Strong: any3% picked this

   Any songwriter who receives revenue from radio airplay has written a

   We were told that if you have a hit song on the radio, then you will get paid for each play. This is saying if you are getting paid for radio play then you have a hit song on the radio That's an illegal reversal. The paragraph never said that the only way to get paid from radio airplay is to write a hit song, which is what (A) is implying.

   3%
2. B

   Too Strong: all3% picked this

   All songwriters who write songs for movie sound tracks have had their songs played on the

   We were told that songwriters who write a hit will have their hit song played on the radio thousands of times, and that songwriters who write a hit often write songs for movie sound tracks. But we can't say that every single songwriter who writes a song for a soundtrack has already hat a hit song played on the radio thousands of times.

   3%
3. C

   Correct66% picked this

   Some songs written for movie sound tracks are played on the radio

   Why this is right

   Ah, there's that lovably weak language: some Is there a way to derive that at least one song written for a movie sound track has been played on the radio thousands of times? Yes, we know two things that allow us to derive this: - songs for movie soundtracks frequently become hits - a hit song is played thousands of times

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

   66%
4. D

   Too Strong: most17% picked this

   Most songwriters prefer the possibility of continued income to single up-front payments

   If we weren't ever given a fact about "Most X", then we can't derive a fact about "Most X", simple as that. Does it say anywhere in the passage that something is true of most songwriters? Yes, in a sneaky way. We know that "most songwriters don't ever achieve a hit" (only a fraction do). So can we derive that these songwriters who don't ever achieve a hit prefer continued income to single-up front payments? Heavens no. We don't know anything about these songwriters beyond the fact that they never had a hit. They would probably be happy with any type of income for their songs. (Speaking from personal experience here) :) This answer is trying to bait people into the speculative inference we discussed in our evaluation, where we imagine that the hit songwriters who sometimes decline to write songs for movies are doing so because they prefer the possibility of continued income (via publishing their song straight to radio) to the possibility of up-front payments (if they gave that song to a movie sound track).

   17%
5. E

   Too Strong: solely12% picked this

   Some songwriters earn money solely from the radio airplay of

   We were told that songwriters get much of their money from radio airplay. We can't say that any of them get all of their money from radio airplay.

   12%