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by harsh.champ » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:33 am
In a recent study of responses to visual images, researchers found that women most frequently gave the rating 'most attractive' to images of male faces that were more feminine in contour, and rated more masculine faces, on average, 'less attractive'. The researchers concluded that modern women prefer men who are less obviously masculine in their facial features.
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by harsh.champ » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:34 am
Q1)The conclusion would be most severely weakened if which of the following were true?

A. Facial features are not the criterion that most women use to decide whether a man is attractive.
B. The visual images were computer generated composites of photographs and not pictures of actual men.
C. The rating scale was a ten point scale with most attractive scoring 1-2 and least attractive scoring 8-10.
D. Most popular male actors have the features that the study allocated to the more masculine category.
E. The faces with the more masculine features were all significantly older than those with the feminine features.
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by harsh.champ » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:35 am
Which is the following is an assumption that the researchers apparently made in this study?

A. The women who participated in the study were sufficiently representative of modern women in general.
B. Male faces are, in general, attractive to women.
C. Visual images are important to women.
D. It is impossible to predict what features an ideal face would have.
E. Women in previous ages would have preferred more masculine men.
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by CookieNet » Sun Feb 21, 2010 4:49 pm
Q1 : IMO D

Since the conclusion said modern women, in general, prefer men who are less obviously masculine in their facial features.
Only D states another fact which is directly contradict to conclusion

A - Though it might be right, it does not make the conclusion undermined. Even though facial feathers are not criteria, women are still able to prefer more masculine facial features.
B - Explained as the same way as A since it does not matter to the conclusion.
C - Rating score does not matter to conclusion.
E - How old the face is does not matter to conclusion. Though you may think women prefer younger face to older face, it is a new assumption that is out-of-scope.


Q2 : IMO A
It is quite easy on the Q like this one. The argument is about a research which draws to general conclusion which represent preference of all women in general. So the women in the research has to be representative.
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by kstv » Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:25 am
IMO A A

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Conslusion is - The researchers concluded that modern women prefer men who are less obviously masculine in their facial features.
Facial features are not the criterion that most women use to decide whether a man is attractive.
There are other criteria. Maybe physical features play a more imp. factor overriding facial features. The premises is all about facial attributes.
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by bigmonkey31 » Tue Feb 23, 2010 10:48 pm
1. A
D is way out of scope and irrelevant.

2. A
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