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Shallow People : Computer Skills v/s Analytical Skills

by RumpelThickSkin » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:56 am
Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

(A) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

(B) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, which they admit they lack, many people are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak.

(C) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, analytical skills bring out a disinclination in many people to recognize that they are weak to a degree.

(D) Many people, willing to admit that they lack computer skills or other technical skills, are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak.

(E) Many people have a disinclination to recognize the weakness of their analytical skills while willing to admit their lack of computer skills or other technical skills.

OA (does anyone really need it) : D

I really don't get this question. Why is C wrong and what with the modifiers on this one. Can someone please in detail why we would pick D over C and E. Many thanks for your reply on this.
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by blaster » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:49 am
Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

(A) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak. (modifier problem : computer skills and other technical skills not modified correctly after comma)

(B) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, which they admit they lack, many people are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak. (same as A)

(C) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, analytical skills bring out a disinclination in many people to recognize that they are weak to a degree. ( that they are weak to a degree - is awkward)

(D) Many people, willing to admit that they lack computer skills or other technical skills, are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak. (correct)

(E) Many people have a disinclination to recognize the weakness of their analytical skills while willing to admit their lack of computer skills or other technical skills. (while willing is not correct)
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by hardik.jadeja » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:51 am
Already discussed at @ https://www.beatthegmat.com/help-with-mo ... 59298.html
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by lunarpower » Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:30 am
(d) vs (e):
* "have a disinclination to recognize" is wordy/unidiomatic, and is definitely inferior to "are disinclined to recognize".

* if you're going to use "while" with an adjective phrase (while willing to...), then that adjective phrase should precede the main verb.
i.e., many people, while willing to... , are disinclined to...

* there's also a slight change in meaning.
"recognize that their ... skills are weak" just means that the people should know that they have weak skills.
"recognize the weakness..." means that they should actually be able to point out the specific weakness.

(c):

two fatal errors of meaning.

first, the sentence just says that the people are "weak to a degree" -- i.e., it doesn't actually specify that the people are actually weak at analytical skills.
taken literally, this sentence says that the analytical skills make people unwilling to admit that they are weak (in general, not just at analytical skills) -- this is not the intended meaning of the sentence.

second, the sentence, if taken literally (as it must be), says that analytical skills themselves bring out this disinclination.
therefore, if we interpret this choice literally, it only applies to people who actually have analytical skills (since the analytical skills themselves bring out this disinclination -- so the disinclination couldn't appear in people who don't have the skills!).
this doesn't make sense, since the sentence is supposed to be talking about people who don't have very good analytical skills.
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by martin.jonson007 » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:48 am
lunarpower wrote:(d) vs (e):
* "have a disinclination to recognize" is wordy/unidiomatic, and is definitely inferior to "are disinclined to recognize".

* if you're going to use "while" with an adjective phrase (while willing to...), then that adjective phrase should precede the main verb.
i.e., many people, while willing to... , are disinclined to...

* there's also a slight change in meaning.
"recognize that their ... skills are weak" just means that the people should know that they have weak skills.
"recognize the weakness..." means that they should actually be able to point out the specific weakness.

(c):

two fatal errors of meaning.

first, the sentence just says that the people are "weak to a degree" -- i.e., it doesn't actually specify that the people are actually weak at analytical skills.
taken literally, this sentence says that the analytical skills make people unwilling to admit that they are weak (in general, not just at analytical skills) -- this is not the intended meaning of the sentence.

second, the sentence, if taken literally (as it must be), says that analytical skills themselves bring out this disinclination.
therefore, if we interpret this choice literally, it only applies to people who actually have analytical skills (since the analytical skills themselves bring out this disinclination -- so the disinclination couldn't appear in people who don't have the skills!).
this doesn't make sense, since the sentence is supposed to be talking about people who don't have very good analytical skills.
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