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sreak1089
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1. Economist: Every business strives to increase its productivity, for this increases profits for the owners and the likelihood that the business will survive. But not all efforts to increase productivity are beneficial to the business as a whole. Often attempts to increase productivity decrease the number of employees, which clearly harms the dismissed employees as well as the sense of security of the retained employees.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the economist's argument?
(A) If an action taken to secure the survival of a business fails to enhance the welfare of the business's employees, that action cannot be good for the business as a whole.
(B) Some measures taken by a business to increase productivity fail to be beneficial to the business as a whole.
(C) Only if the employees of a business are also its owners will the interests of the employees and owners coincide, enabling measures that will be beneficial to the business as whole.
(D) There is no business that does not make efforts to increase its productivity.
(E) Decreasing the number of employees in a business undermines the snese of security fo retained employees.
2. Double-blind techniques should be used whenever possible in scientific experiments. They help prevent the misinterpretations that often arise due to expectations and opinions that sicientists already hold and clearly scientists should be extremely diligent in trying to avoid such misinterpretations.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the argument?
(A) Scientists's objectivity may be impeded by interpreting experimental evidence on the basis of expectations and opinions that they hold.
(B) It is advisable for scientists to use double-blind techniques in as high proportion of their experiments as they can.
(C) Scientists sometimes neglect to adequately consider the risk of misinterpreting evidence on the basis of prior expectations and opinions.
(D) Whenver possible, scientists should refrain from interpreting evidence on the basis of previously formed expecations and convictions.
(E) Double-blind experimental technieques are often an effective way fo ensuring scientific objectivity.
OA after discussion.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the economist's argument?
(A) If an action taken to secure the survival of a business fails to enhance the welfare of the business's employees, that action cannot be good for the business as a whole.
(B) Some measures taken by a business to increase productivity fail to be beneficial to the business as a whole.
(C) Only if the employees of a business are also its owners will the interests of the employees and owners coincide, enabling measures that will be beneficial to the business as whole.
(D) There is no business that does not make efforts to increase its productivity.
(E) Decreasing the number of employees in a business undermines the snese of security fo retained employees.
2. Double-blind techniques should be used whenever possible in scientific experiments. They help prevent the misinterpretations that often arise due to expectations and opinions that sicientists already hold and clearly scientists should be extremely diligent in trying to avoid such misinterpretations.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion of the argument?
(A) Scientists's objectivity may be impeded by interpreting experimental evidence on the basis of expectations and opinions that they hold.
(B) It is advisable for scientists to use double-blind techniques in as high proportion of their experiments as they can.
(C) Scientists sometimes neglect to adequately consider the risk of misinterpreting evidence on the basis of prior expectations and opinions.
(D) Whenver possible, scientists should refrain from interpreting evidence on the basis of previously formed expecations and convictions.
(E) Double-blind experimental technieques are often an effective way fo ensuring scientific objectivity.
OA after discussion.
