Critical Reasoning

kutlee wrote:I can't understand Mitch's explanation for option A.

A) SunState attracts more people who move from one state to another when they retire than does any other state.
This answer choice could imply that SunState attracts 30-year old workers who will move to another state when they retire, STRENGTHENING the conclusion that local businesses catering to retirees will be hurt economically.
Eliminate A.

GMATGuruNY wrote: A) SunState attracts more people who move from one state to another when they retire than does any other state.
This answer choice could imply that SunState attracts 30-year old workers who will move to another state when they retire, STRENGTHENING the conclusion that local businesses catering to retirees will be hurt economically.
Eliminate A.

GMATGuruNY -

(1) would you please let me know your thoughts on the below explanation as another potential reason to eliminate option A ?

I think,one can construe that option A doesn't really affect the argument at hand. Because A could also mean that even though SunState attracts more retirees from elsewhere than does any other state, still the number of retirees moving to SunState can increase/decrease depending on the corresponding increase/decrease in the TOTAL number of retirees moving from one state to another.

So,basically it doesn't really affect the CONCLUSION! Does this interpretation stand good ?

Curious to hear from you!

(2) Here, why we're NOT considering the retirees moving out of Florida ?

Is it because of this SPECIFIC part of the ARGUMENT -- ...of the people who moved from one state to another when they retired, the percentage who retired to Florida... ? Does this portion in RED seem to imply that we're ONLY concerned with out of state retirees moving to Florida ?

RBBmba@2014 wrote: think,one can construe that option A doesn't really affect the argument at hand. Because A could also mean that even though SunState attracts more retirees from elsewhere than does any other state, still the number of retirees moving to SunState can increase/decrease depending on the corresponding increase/decrease in the TOTAL number of retirees moving from one state to another.

Correct.
Option A indicates that Sunstate attracts more people than do other states, but the number of people retiring to Sunstate is unknown.
The number of people retiring to Sunstate could be very high or very low.
As a result, A does not weaken the conclusion that local businesses catering to retirees will be hurt.

(2) Here, why we're NOT considering the retirees moving out of Florida ?

Is it because of this SPECIFIC part of the ARGUMENT -- ...of the people who moved from one state to another when they retired, the percentage who retired to Florida... ? Does this portion in RED seem to imply that we're ONLY concerned with out of state retirees moving to Florida ?

Yes.

Hi Verbal Experts,
Could it be a potential WEAKENER on GMAT -- The retirees moving out of Florida/SunState have gone down significantly in the last 10 years ?

Because the resulting customer base of the businesses thus might offset the negative economic effect due to the probable decline of retirees to Florida/SunState !

Please share your thoughts on the above!

Hi Verbal Experts(Dave/Mitch/others),
Can any of you please share your quick thoughts on my above concern ?

Look forward to your reply. Much thanks in advance!

RBBmba@2014 wrote:Hi Verbal Experts,
Could it be a potential WEAKENER on GMAT -- The retirees moving out of Florida/SunState have gone down significantly in the last 10 years ?

Because the resulting customer base of the businesses thus might offset the negative economic effect due to the probable decline of retirees to Florida/SunState !

Please share your thoughts on the above!

Proposed answer choice:
The number of retirees moving out of SunState has decreased significantly over the last 10 years.
Here, some retirees have still moved OUT OF SunState, potentially STRENGTHENING the conclusion that
there has been a negative economic effect on local businesses catering to retirees.
For this reason, the proposed answer choice does not seem a viable weakener.

Please do write your own answer choices to Verbal problems.
Please limit your questions to the answer choices actually given.