Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT9 S2 Q6 Explanation

In the summer of 1936

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TopicsParadox

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Stimulus

In the summer of 1936 a polling service telephoned 10,000 United States voters and asked how they planned to vote in the coming presidential election. The survey sample included a variety of respondents—rural and urban, male and female, from every state. The defeat Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, Roosevelt won in a landslide.

What this question is testing

Paradox

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
6.

Which one of the following, if true, best explains why the poll’s

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    The interviewers did not reveal their own political affiliation to

  2. Trap5% picked this

    Only people who would be qualified to vote by election time were interviewed, so the survey sample was not representative of

  3. Correct89% picked this

    The survey sample was representative only of people who could afford telephones at a time when phone ownership was less

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

  4. Trap4% picked this

    No effort was made to determine the respondents’

  5. Trap0% picked this

    Because the poll asked only for respondents’ candidate preference, it collected no information concerning their reasons for

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