television talk shows

Tough one..i'm going to guess B

bichoo wrote:Tough one..i'm going to guess B

@bichoo..

Under these tough circumstances, I suggest you to use Kaplan Denial Test/negate Test.

Try them on option A. U shall see whole conclusion of the argument falls apart.

Pick A

OA is B

Time 2:22
Too long (May have to make time from other question ....lol)
My take is E

Which means author assumes all tv shows and station are same....

neoreaves wrote:OA is B

is it?
well i think there is no indication of any thing like controversy and disturbing things in the question.
So,i think it would be injecting new information or reader guessing or using extra brain(or information) if that really is the answer.

Can somebody help me to understand why not E? what is the source of this Q?

The argument tells that television shows are a product of political agenda..

On the other hand it tells that TV shows are driven by economic forces...

Finally concludes that the political analysis is bland and innocuous..

this implies that there are other tv shows that have a greater economic impact than does TV talk shows which do political analysis.

picked D.

CrazyGmatter wrote:The argument tells that television shows are a product of political agenda..

On the other hand it tells that TV shows are driven by economic forces...

Finally concludes that the political analysis is bland and innocuous..

this implies that there are other tv shows that have a greater economic impact than does TV talk shows which do political analysis.

picked D.

i think you have fallen in to trick here....
"television stations are driven by the same economic forces as sellers of more tangible goods."

It is about television station not a comparision between 2 shows ....(whole station is driven to economic forces..)

but what D does is
compare 2 shows....which is more driven by economic forces....for which there is no any evidence to decide in passage...
so I feel it cannot be D...

Step 1 of the Kaplan Method: Analyze the question stem.

Here, the magic word is 'Assumption'. We know what we're dealing with, and so we know what we're going to do: the author will cite evidence leading to his or her conclusion, and the question is asking us for a fact that is necessary to bridge a gap between that evidence and that conclusion.

Step 2 of the Kaplan Method: Untangle the Stimulus.

'Untangle' means we don't just read blindly, we read looking for specific information. Since this is an assumption question, we know that we should be looking for the Conclusion and the Evidence. Fortunately, the author gives us some great material to work with: the key phrase 'in fact'. This nicely ID's the conclusion for us, which we can paraphrase as "Economic forces, not political agendas, are the reason that TV talk shows only have mainstream politics." The evidence too is conveniently tagged for us with a 'because'. We paraphrase the evidence as "Networks air only shows that capture large audiences."

Step 3 of the Kaplan Method: Predict the Answer.

So what's the gap that we need to fill? It's helpful to look for scope shifts, changes in terminology between the evidence and the conclusion. In this case, we have a major one. The evidence is discussing large audiences, but the conclusion discusses mainstream politics. What do those have to do with one another? Who's to say that the political views of a TV talk show has anything to do with it's audience?

The author is trying to claim that mainstream political opinion gets large audiences. But he doesn't actually state that this is the case! The author is therefore relying on the unstated assumption that non-mainstream opinions drive away a significant portion of the audience. And since this is an Assumption question, we have our answer: we look for a choice that says that people will not watch political opinions they do not like.

Step 4 of the Kaplan Method: Evaluate the Answer Choice.

(B) Matches our prediction exactly.

Because we've made a prediction, we aren't tempted by trap choice (E). But if we had to rule out (E), we would do so because it says shows are like each other in 'most' respects. There is, in fact, exactly ONE respect this author claims they share: politics. Any other similarities, or lack thereof, are outside the scope of this argument.