Critical Reasoning

Joshua: It is cause for alarm that over half of the people in this state reported in a survey that they knew someone who had been a victim of a crime.

Laura: But each person surveyed probably knows a hundred people. If only one person out of one hundred acquaintances had been a victim of a crime, even a petty theft, they would reply in the affirmative. Although a zero crime rate is ideal, it is unrealistic to expect the crime rate to be less than one percent.

Laura's argument relies on the assumption that

a. the crime rate rarely goes above one percent.
b. Joshua is accurately reporting the statistics he presents.
c. the number of people who know someone who is a victim of crime is always higher than fifty percent of the population.
d. awareness of a crime committed against an acquaintance generates more fear than does knowledge of crime statistics.
e. normally, crime victims are not found only in certain areas of the state among certain isolated groups of people.

PL explain.
E

singhsa wrote:Joshua: It is cause for alarm that over half of the people in this state reported in a survey that they knew someone who had been a victim of a crime.

Laura: But each person surveyed probably knows a hundred people. If only one person out of one hundred acquaintances had been a victim of a crime, even a petty theft, they would reply in the affirmative. Although a zero crime rate is ideal, it is unrealistic to expect the crime rate to be less than one percent.

Laura's argument relies on the assumption that

a. the crime rate rarely goes above one percent.
b. Joshua is accurately reporting the statistics he presents.
c. the number of people who know someone who is a victim of crime is always higher than fifty percent of the population.
d. awareness of a crime committed against an acquaintance generates more fear than does knowledge of crime statistics.
e. normally, crime victims are not found only in certain areas of the state among certain isolated groups of people.

PL explain.
E

A : Irrevalent
B: Cant be assumption
C: Can be inference but can never be assumption
D: Irrevalent
E: It explains that crime victims are found all around and are not concentrated in particular area. This implies that this survey sampling was done in proper way.Hence it is answer.

singhsa wrote:Joshua: It is cause for alarm that over half of the people in this state reported in a survey that they knew someone who had been a victim of a crime.

Laura: But each person surveyed probably knows a hundred people. If only one person out of one hundred acquaintances had been a victim of a crime, even a petty theft, they would reply in the affirmative. Although a zero crime rate is ideal, it is unrealistic to expect the crime rate to be less than one percent.

Laura's argument relies on the assumption that

a. the crime rate rarely goes above one percent.
b. Joshua is accurately reporting the statistics he presents.
c. the number of people who know someone who is a victim of crime is always higher than fifty percent of the population.
d. awareness of a crime committed against an acquaintance generates more fear than does knowledge of crime statistics.
e. normally, crime victims are not found only in certain areas of the state among certain isolated groups of people.

PL explain.
E

this argument is really familiar with the CR in OG 11 about umemployed people...
the answer is E