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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:12 am
An employee representative of the Quik Snak company has released a report containing information on about thirty employees at the company's central meat-packing plant, all of whom were hospitalized with hepatitis. This report follows a similar one released last month by a local epidemiologist pointing out a sharp rise in the number of diagnoses of hepatitis among workers at the same plant. Quik Snak management, however, maintains that the ill employees must have contracted the disease while off the job.

Which one of the following statements, if true, would cast the most doubt on the Quik Snak management's claim?



The thirty hospitalized workers were all diagnosed with other illnesses as well.



The epidemiologist's report was scientifically sound.



The Quik Snak company is privately held, and will not publicly release its safety record.



All of the workers in question suffered from Hepatitis A, which is most frequently transmitted through tainted food.



No workers other than the thirty who were hospitalized show any signs of having hepatitis.

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by albatross86 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:57 am
Fact 1: Report on 30 employees who were all hospitalized with hepatitis.
Fact 2: Similar report 1 month ago pointing out sharp rise in hepatitis diagnoses at that plant.

Claim : Employees contracted it outside the job.

WEAKENER


A. Multiple illnesses could have all been from outside - irrelevant.

B. The report was scientifically sound - so we can be sure that there really was an increase in the number of diagnoses. We cannot conclude as to whether the illness was contracted on the job or off it.

C. Safety record is private.

D. Hepatitis A is transmitted through tainted food. This shows that it is likely they all contracted it in the meat-packing plant.

E. Other workers show no signs of hepatitis - this doesn't weaken the claim that the workers who had hepatitis got it off the job.

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by loveusonu » Tue Jun 29, 2010 10:07 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:An employee representative of the Quik Snak company has released a report containing information on about thirty employees at the company's central meat-packing plant, all of whom were hospitalized with hepatitis. This report follows a similar one released last month by a local epidemiologist pointing out a sharp rise in the number of diagnoses of hepatitis among workers at the same plant. Quik Snak management, however, maintains that the ill employees must have contracted the disease while off the job.

Which one of the following statements, if true, would cast the most doubt on the Quik Snak management's claim?

The thirty hospitalized workers were all diagnosed with other illnesses as well.

The epidemiologist's report was scientifically sound.

The Quik Snak company is privately held, and will not publicly release its safety record.

All of the workers in question suffered from Hepatitis A, which is most frequently transmitted through tainted food.

No workers other than the thirty who were hospitalized show any signs of having hepatitis.

WHY E IS WRONG
E supports rather than casting doubt.. Only D and A weakens the argument and D is much stronger.

QUE: We have to weaken that employees have contracted the desease while off the job.

D: Hepatitis A is caused by tainted or rotten food. Now, there is high chance that food comes from one sources and served at the place where all 30 has eaten. rare chance that all stay at same locality, but high chance all might have eaten same food at company. So high chance that desease occurred while in the job and hence the argument gets weaken.

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by outreach » Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:18 am
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by paddle_sweep » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:10 am
I will go with 'C'. Pls post OA.

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by diebeatsthegmat » Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:53 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:An employee representative of the Quik Snak company has released a report containing information on about thirty employees at the company's central meat-packing plant, all of whom were hospitalized with hepatitis. This report follows a similar one released last month by a local epidemiologist pointing out a sharp rise in the number of diagnoses of hepatitis among workers at the same plant. Quik Snak management, however, maintains that the ill employees must have contracted the disease while off the job.

Which one of the following statements, if true, would cast the most doubt on the Quik Snak management's claim?



The thirty hospitalized workers were all diagnosed with other illnesses as well.



The epidemiologist's report was scientifically sound.



The Quik Snak company is privately held, and will not publicly release its safety record.



All of the workers in question suffered from Hepatitis A, which is most frequently transmitted through tainted food.



No workers other than the thirty who were hospitalized show any signs of having hepatitis.

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d here too
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by reply2spg » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:34 pm
I reached to D, but I have a question about D. I feel that D is the best among worst.

While selecting D, I think that we need number of assumptions.

1. Workers had tainted food in the company premises.
2. Workers were not ill
3. There is no way that workers get tainted food outside company

Are we suppose to do so many assumptions while selecting right answer?
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:An employee representative of the Quik Snak company has released a report containing information on about thirty employees at the company's central meat-packing plant, all of whom were hospitalized with hepatitis. This report follows a similar one released last month by a local epidemiologist pointing out a sharp rise in the number of diagnoses of hepatitis among workers at the same plant. Quik Snak management, however, maintains that the ill employees must have contracted the disease while off the job.

Which one of the following statements, if true, would cast the most doubt on the Quik Snak management's claim?



The thirty hospitalized workers were all diagnosed with other illnesses as well.



The epidemiologist's report was scientifically sound.



The Quik Snak company is privately held, and will not publicly release its safety record.



All of the workers in question suffered from Hepatitis A, which is most frequently transmitted through tainted food.



No workers other than the thirty who were hospitalized show any signs of having hepatitis.

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