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by sana.noor » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:32 am
2,500 individuals of voting age were polled and asked where they stood on the political spectrum. 78% of these individuals described themselves as "moderate" in their political views; however, in the national elections that most closely preceded and followed the poll, over half of the individuals polled voted for candidates far to one end of the political spectrum. It follows that these individuals did not accurately describe their political views.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the above argument relies?

A. Individuals always characterize themselves in keeping with their actual political views.
B. There were no moderate candidates in the national elections preceding and following the poll.
C. Voters with moderate political views will not vote for candidates who do not express moderate political views.
D. Voters can be highly fickle, changing their political views in a relatively short period of time.
E. Many of the polled individuals did not understand what a moderate political view is, and so misdescribed themselves

OA is c i have seen this question before on this forum but still i am confused. the conclusion is that voters actually didn't describe their political views correctly, however C says that voters with moderate political views will not vote for candidate who do not express moderate views. it means that the voters with moderate views actually didnt vote. this weakens the conclusion.
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by theCodeToGMAT » Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:20 am
Negated Conclusion: Individuals accurately described political view

{C} Voters with moderate political views will vote for candidates who do not express moderate political views. -- this means that individuals did accurately described their views and did voting based on the pattern suggested by choice C i.e. 78% of people voted to a candidate from group comprised of rest 22%
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by Mike@Magoosh » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:31 am
sana.noor wrote:2,500 individuals of voting age were polled and asked where they stood on the political spectrum. 78% of these individuals described themselves as "moderate" in their political views; however, in the national elections that most closely preceded and followed the poll, over half of the individuals polled voted for candidates far to one end of the political spectrum. It follows that these individuals did not accurately describe their political views.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the above argument relies?

A. Individuals always characterize themselves in keeping with their actual political views.
B. There were no moderate candidates in the national elections preceding and following the poll.
C. Voters with moderate political views will not vote for candidates who do not express moderate political views.
D. Voters can be highly fickle, changing their political views in a relatively short period of time.
E. Many of the polled individuals did not understand what a moderate political view is, and so misdescribed themselves

OA is c i have seen this question before on this forum but still i am confused. the conclusion is that voters actually didn't describe their political views correctly, however C says that voters with moderate political views will not vote for candidate who do not express moderate views. it means that the voters with moderate views actually didnt vote. this weakens the conclusion.
Dear sana.noor,

I'm happy to help with this. :-)

First of all, here's a blog about Assumptions and the Negation Test:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/assumption ... -the-gmat/

The conclusion is "these individuals did not accurately describe their views." In other words, people said they were moderates but really weren't. You are assuming that they really were moderate, just because they said they were moderate. People are not always what they say they are, and politicians almost never are! The whole point of the argument is that these people described themselves one way and behaved in another way, so that their self-description was inaccurate.

If we negate (C), as Rahul suggested ---- "Voters with moderate political views will vote for candidates who do not express moderate political views." Then, it would be perfectly possible for a person, in all honesty and with complete accuracy, to describe herself as "moderate" and yet, despite that, vote for a non-moderate candidate. Thus, the fact that folks voted for a non-moderate candidate would not constitute evidence that their self-description as "moderate" was inaccurate. That would devastate the argument. ----- Since the negation of (C) devastates the argument, (C) must be the assumption.

Does all this make sense?
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