Critical Reasoning

In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only

kvcpk wrote:In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only

IMO A

Provide explanations Please!!

In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.

Since they know it'll take a lot of effort to fire them, then have a sense of job security and hence are slacking off --> thus it's having a negative influence on them.

Since the author is concluding that the govt is inefficient because of the cvil employees' attitude, it must mean that the Govt has civil service employees. These has to be a link between the premise and the conclusion, and III fills that gap.

Hence, B

I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.

kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.

I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?

beatthegmatinsept wrote:

kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.

I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?

Thankyou!! But I am not completely convinced
OA is A.

kvcpk wrote:

beatthegmatinsept wrote:

kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.

I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?

Thankyou!! But I am not completely convinced
OA is A.

I am not either.
III has to be an assumption in order to get to the conclusion that the author states.
what's the source?

kvcpk wrote:

beatthegmatinsept wrote:

kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.

I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?

Thankyou!! But I am not completely convinced
OA is A.

This is an inference question....
Does the passage say that inefficiency in gov is proportional to number of employees in gov.

It could be the case that gov is inefficient because the civil service officers are responsible for most of inefficiency, and such officers are only 10%.
90 % are not civil service officers.

IMO E seems correct.
I is over-generalized.
What is the OE and the source?

B and C cant be inferred from stem.

A too is difficult one.

None of them should be answer

Experts please intervene

I is correct.
III should also hold true as "This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient"-- that means most of the employees are CS at government jobs

Hence B should have been the answer..

I m waiting for the experts to comment

kvcpk wrote:In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only

Hi can u reveal the source ?