Incumbent candidate for governor: As the people of our great state know, my administration has created unprecedented economic prosperity and job growth. Just look at the unemployment rate, which has reached its lowest point in nearly twenty years!
Opposing candidate for governor: That's preposterous. You overlook the fact that the unemployment rate is just as much a function of the number of people in the labor market as much as it is of the number of people employed. Your greatest contribution to the economy has been a series of retirement parties and moves to other states!
The opposing candidate's reply to the incumbent proceeds by:
A) Supplying a statistic that undermines the incumbent's conclusion.
B) Suggesting that the incumbent's statistic is factually inaccurate.
C) Offering a statistic that sheds additional light on the statistic supplied by the incumbent.
D) Claiming that the incumbent used a statistic irrelevant to his conclusion.
E) Pointing out that the incumbent cited a statistic that does not necessarily support his conclusion.
OA E
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Option A :- INCORRECT
The opposing candidate's reply does not seemingly undermine the incumbent's conclusion. It is only exploring deeper into the relevance of the incumbent's conclusion.
Option B :- INCORRECT
The opposing candidate's conclusion is not sufficient enough to prove that the incumbent's statistics is incorrect because no data were presented in both cases
Option C :- INCORRECT
The opposite's conclusion is no where close to supporting the incumbent's opinion.
Option D :- INCORRECT
This is so close to the answer, but the opposing candidate do not consider the incumbent's conclusion as totally irrelevant . He was only drawing attention to calculating the employment rate using a different mechanism that is relative to unemployment.
Option E :- CORRECT
The opposition's opinion does not condemn the incumbent's statistics but, he was only trying to project his own opinion in a different way that may not necessarily support the incumbent's opinion.
The opposing candidate's reply does not seemingly undermine the incumbent's conclusion. It is only exploring deeper into the relevance of the incumbent's conclusion.
Option B :- INCORRECT
The opposing candidate's conclusion is not sufficient enough to prove that the incumbent's statistics is incorrect because no data were presented in both cases
Option C :- INCORRECT
The opposite's conclusion is no where close to supporting the incumbent's opinion.
Option D :- INCORRECT
This is so close to the answer, but the opposing candidate do not consider the incumbent's conclusion as totally irrelevant . He was only drawing attention to calculating the employment rate using a different mechanism that is relative to unemployment.
Option E :- CORRECT
The opposition's opinion does not condemn the incumbent's statistics but, he was only trying to project his own opinion in a different way that may not necessarily support the incumbent's opinion.
