Critical Reasoning

Analyst: Creative professionals, such as clothing designers, graphic designers, and decorators, often have very poor managerial skills and do not succeed when they try to run their own businesses. In fact, most of these creative types are less skilled in business than is the average white-collar professional who does not work in a creative field. Generally, creative talent and business acumen rarely go hand in hand.

If the analyst's argument is taken as true, which of the following statements can properly be concluded?

A- No successful businesspeople are creative.
B- Some creative types are not less skilled at business than is the average white-collar worker who is not creative.
C- Creativity precludes success in business.
D- Any white-collar worker who is not creative is more successful in business than any creative professional.
E- Business is not a creative endeavor

easy (B)

rest are either out of scope or too strong to infer ...

I go for D

I go for B..

OA please.

IMO B.

Must be true question.

A, C, D and E - Not mentioned in the argument
B - Paraphrasing a premise

OA is B

Can someone say why E is wrong ..

Answer is clearly B