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by hk » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:03 pm
Incase you cannot read the attachment fully please right click on the image and select View Image.

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by Vemuri » Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:56 pm
hk wrote:The question is attached below. Please explain your answers.
IMO C. I was between C & E, but I felt E contradicted the premise of the argument & C has a reason for why people might not live longer even after volunteering (because of the disease that is temporarily masked)
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by SanjeevK » Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:12 am
IMO [spoiler]A:[/spoiler]

Option A shows that in the communities studied, women were much more likely to do regular volunteer work and most of the times women live longer than men. Hence even if volunteer doesn't boost longevity, the stastics will remain the same.
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by rseeker2 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:50 am
I would go for C

Even if the person has some disease, it wouldn't show up because the symptoms are masked.
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by amazonviper » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:28 am
hk wrote:The question is attached below. Please explain your answers.
IMO A.
We need to find an option that supports the conclusion but which would still be valid due to another fact (no volunteering). A does this. It is proven that Women live longer than Men. If more Women volunteer than men then it might seem that volunteering actually increases the longevity of life.

Really nice question!!. Thanks for posting. I hope I am correct in my reasoning. ;-)

OA please.
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by n_niaz » Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:47 am
IMO = A

It goes to show that endorphins / volunteer work is not the cause of long life. People predisposed to long life were already volunteering.
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by madhur_ahuja » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:07 am
n_niaz wrote:IMO = A

It goes to show that endorphins / volunteer work is not the cause of long life. People predisposed to long life were already volunteering.
Agree with above explanation and hence A
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by gmat_dest » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:52 am
My choice is A.
But eager to know OA.
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by aj5105 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:50 am
The tone of the author suggests something very obvious. With that clue, I feel (A) has to be the answer.
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by hk » Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:27 am
Alright the OA is A

Can someone clearly explain:
1. What is asked?
2. How and why is this answer choice correct?
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by chintanjadwani » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:43 am
i guess u might have got confused in the language of the last line...bcos i had to read it thrice, then i got it... :)

''the statistic would be what you would expect it to be...''

means that the statistic result that ''volunteers live longer than non volunteers'' , which we got from studying the particular community would give the same result even if that community were not volunteering..

hope you're getting it..

the question asks that even if we study the volunteering community or the nonvolounteering , we will get the result that they live longer!!

How is that possible?

because the study involved women volunteers,

reason:- women generally live more than men (damn...)) lol...

so even if these women were not volunteers or not volunteers we'd conclude that they i.e. 'women volunteers'' live more than men..
so the statistic would be the same for both ....

phew!!

hope this helps :)
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by chintanjadwani » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:45 am
sorry for the error above...

''women would be volunteers or not ...'''
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by ketkoag » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:43 am
chintanjadwani wrote:i guess u might have got confused in the language of the last line...bcos i had to read it thrice, then i got it... :)

''the statistic would be what you would expect it to be...''

means that the statistic result that ''volunteers live longer than non volunteers'' , which we got from studying the particular community would give the same result even if that community were not volunteering..

hope you're getting it..

the question asks that even if we study the volunteering community or the nonvolounteering , we will get the result that they live longer!!

How is that possible?

because the study involved women volunteers,

reason:- women generally live more than men (damn...)) lol...

so even if these women were not volunteers or not volunteers we'd conclude that they i.e. 'women volunteers'' live more than men..
so the statistic would be the same for both ....

phew!!

hope this helps :)
please lemme know whether the next best answer in this question is B, right.. that is if A were not an option then B should be the answer in that case.. right??
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by Domnu » Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:48 am
Here's why the answer is A:

Eliminate B; the number of young adults volunteering increasing has no impact on volunteering and longevity.

Eliminate C; if anything, this would decrease longevity, because masking symptoms implies that diseases may not even be treated until issues may have gotten out of hand.

Eliminate D; the passage doesn't mention anything about the frequency of volunteering.

Eliminate E; if volunteering is stressful, how can it improve longevity? In fact, it may even decrease longevity.

A makes sense, since here, volunteering clearly isn't doing the job of increasing longevity, but something else is.
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