Critical Reasoning

viju9162 wrote:Karan,

Do you have explaination for this?

italian7745 has given a good resoning to arrive at the conclusion.

Definitely I do have the OE, which goes on as :

The author begins by stating the theory that household indebtedness causes recession, and then examines whether that theory applies to “the recent recession.” He considers a hypothetical scenario in which the theory might apply, but then says that this scenario did not obtain during the recent recession. His conclusion is that the theory doesn't apply:
Household indebtedness was not the cause of the recent recession.


Why D is wrong :

Although the argument implies that high household indebtedness didn’t cause the late recession, there's no implication that it has little impact on the economy; that's much too strong.

Hope this Helps

But in the argument itself, the author concludes that the problem lies elsewhere. . .

viju9162 wrote:But in the argument itself, the author concludes that the problem lies elsewhere. . .

yes that's true.

key to solve problems like these is we must avoid answers which are too extreme.
Please go through the Offical Explanation keeping the bold part in mind.

Hope this helps

Went for D as well.

I received a pm for the explanation of question Mayor Drabble pg-4 of this thread.

It would be very easy to get 2 contenders for this questions viz a and e. Rest of the options are as bad as they can be.

Now lets keep in mind the argument and try to personalize the argument for better understanding.
An example how to personalize an argument(You may have a different way,depends upon person to person)
Let me keep myself in place of Mayor Drabble :
So, we know that I owe Lee a fairly recent political debt, and Lee wants to be appointed to head the arts commission. Since i always repay my political debts “as soon as possible,” I will repay all the previous debts I can before fulfilling my obligation to Lee. So if we want to conclude that Lee will get the appointment he wants, we have to assume that no one else who would like to head the arts commission is ahead of Lee in the line for political repayment by me.

E stands as a close contender. Lets see what's wrong with E:
The OE says :It’s not absolutely necessary to assume that Lee’s debt can only be repaid in one way. And even if the author does make this assumption, it doesn’t complete the argument. The author still need to assume that the mayor won’t first repay one of her older debts by
appointing someone besides Lee to head the arts commission

A better way to kick out E is Personalize.

Lets say the only way to repay MY political debt(remember I am Mayor D ) is to appoint is to appoint Lee as head. But what if Mr. Shawn is also one of the contender whom I owe a political debt of longer standing than Lee. Certainly Lee won't become the Head then. So this leaves the argument vulnerable to criticism and an assumption is something which safeguards the argument. So definitely, this is not the assumption.

I am so sorry that I skipped the explanation for this question.Some Difficult questions like this one require in-depth analysis and I appreciate your feed back.

I came across this particular question and I found it was quiet interesting to note how the question was presented. Although, the question is a easy one, but definitely in a reverse order.

The stem carries what is usually given in the answer choices and vice-versa.

Hope you people will like this one.

gmat740 wrote:I came across this particular question and I found it was quiet interesting to note how the question was presented. Although, the question is a easy one, but definitely in a reverse order.

The stem carries what is usually given in the answer choices and vice-versa.

Hope you people will like this one.

Is it E ? I am not able to relate any other option with the argument.

its onlY E that barely makes a connection alll the other options are bull.

Should be E

if the insurance is affordable for everyone..and is subsidized...

then there is no need for another Fund... for uninsured houses

nervesofsteel wrote:Should be E

if the insurance is affordable for everyone..and is subsidized...

then there is no need for another Fund... for uninsured houses

Yes it is E. This was definitely an easy,but a different one.


Hope you guys like it.

Next one :

too easy this has to be B...others just dont connect.

Confused between B and C..

Hnestly I have not understood B, for me vague contenders are B/C/E only A/D are obviously out.

a tough one..

I was between B and E

Then B wins.....

alan confuses undermining the support " article's content " with negating the conclusion ... that his children can't be impacted....."conclusion " ...