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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:07 pm
Identify an assumption on which the following argument depends:

A social psychologist claims that the physical proximity between people is the main predictor of interpersonal attraction. To support this, the psychologist claims that in a college dorm, students who live on the same floor tend to become friends with one another more often than with those who live on other floors.

A
The students in the dorm do not necessarily have floor meetings that lead to higher interpersonal attraction.
B
The students in the dorm may also have close friends who live in other dorms.
C
The students in the dorm are an accurate representation of the general population.
D
The students in the dorm do not have different numbers of friends on the floor.
E
The students in the dorm all have similar majors and share classes together.
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by shovan85 » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:53 am
Confused between A and C .
I think floor meetings is a type of "physical proximity" mentioned in the passage.
So will go with C .
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by bomond » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:58 am
pradeepkaushal9518, your post has two questions.

From this text you can draw two assumtions.

1. Giving an example of college dorm, psychologist assumes that all people in the world look like students in the dorm, which means the students in the dorm are an accurate representation of the general population.

2. Second assumption is "living on the same floor means physical proximity".

But, thank god that we don't have answer with the meaning of assumption #2

So, answer must be C.
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by psychomath » Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:50 am
I will go with C. Negate C and the whole argument falls-ie the example given would not hold good if C is negated!
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by pesfunk » Thu Oct 14, 2010 8:04 am
Completely right... IMO C
psychomath wrote:I will go with C. Negate C and the whole argument falls-ie the example given would not hold good if C is negated!
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by diebeatsthegmat » Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:51 pm
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:Identify an assumption on which the following argument depends:

A social psychologist claims that the physical proximity between people is the main predictor of interpersonal attraction. To support this, the psychologist claims that in a college dorm, students who live on the same floor tend to become friends with one another more often than with those who live on other floors.

A
The students in the dorm do not necessarily have floor meetings that lead to higher interpersonal attraction.
B
The students in the dorm may also have close friends who live in other dorms.
C
The students in the dorm are an accurate representation of the general population.
D
The students in the dorm do not have different numbers of friends on the floor.
E
The students in the dorm all have similar majors and share classes together.
go with A
whats the answer?
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by ov25 » Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:43 am
C - data not represented fails the stimulus
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by Dangerous Dude » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:37 am
I believe its A.... If we negate A Conclusion weekens..we get that the dorm meeting is bring people together rather than physical proximity. Hence this is assumption

C-> Even if it is not an accurate representation of people, what does that mean and how much it can affect the people is not clear. We can't make decision upright on it...
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by deepshi291 » Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:12 pm
what's the OA?

I would go with C
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by aspirant_mumbai » Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:29 am
IMO C.

The author is giving an example of a dorm assuming that this holds true universally. Hence, the assumption is that dorm represents the whole population.

Would you please share the OA?

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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sun Oct 24, 2010 5:25 am
be happy i am posting the oa

i m thankful to all as u all actively participates in my posts

oa is C

take oe also

Answer choice C is correct because it presents an assumption that links the evidence and the conclusion (by stating that this specific example of interpersonal attraction among students living in a college dorm is representative of interpersonal attraction among the population as a whole
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