Correctly measuring the productivity

Yes.Its a weaken type question?

Which of the following,if true,casts most doubt on the conclusion above?


The question can be rephrased as,

Which of the following statements,if true,casts doubt on the the objection implied above to the productivity measure.

I reckon this is an assumption question as it relies on something based on the choices. In such a case, if the postal workers are not representative of service workers in general, the conclusiuon falls apart.

So correct answer choice IMO is A.

Please post the OA.

The argument is that when measuring the productivity of workers, you must consider not only that they for example deliver more letters, but also how many letters they lose or deliver late, at the same time. i.e. there are complex considerations.

The objection implied --> The author is objecting to a measure of simply looking at the total number of letters delivered, without considering other factors.

What is this objection doubting? Or in other words - Which of the following would the arguer be most likely to doubt or disagree with?

A. Well he may agree with this since he actually used them as an example himself.

B. He doesn't doubt this at all.

C. Nowhere is this mentioned. We are talking about the productivity of each individual worker, and not concerned with that of categories of workers.

D. QUALITY of services can be ignored. The arguer says that delays or losses must be considered which is in essence representative of quality. He would therefore support the inclusion of quality as a measure of productivity, and thus would disagree or doubt the truth of this statement.

E. He doesn't doubt this - he says other things need to be considered in addition to this. It may be relevant.

Pick D.

I'd go with D as well.

What is the OA?

OA is D