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Strengthen EXCEPT

by abhi75 » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:45 pm
In the past year the National Broadcasting Network (NBN) has
lost nearly 30 percent of its advertising revenue. Most of the
advertisers who ended their association with NBN did so in the
month following the network’s broadcast of a controversial
political program. Industry analysts believe that the controversial
program led to NBN’s loss of so much revenue.

Each of the following, if true, provides additional support for
the analysts’belief EXCEPT:

(A) Many of the advertisers that left NBN have strong political
positions and prefer not to …nancially support those who
disagree with them.

(B) Another network that broadcast the controversial program
experienced a similar drop in advertising revenue.

(C) Most of the drop in advertising revenue resulted from
advertisers cutting down their number of advertisements,
not ceasing to advertise completely.

(D) Many of the advertisers who left NBN also advertise on
competing networks, and these other networks did not
experience drops in advertising revenue when NBN did.

(E) The month following the broadcast of the controversial
program is typically one in which networks experience
an increase in advertising revenue.

Can someone answer this please along with reasoning.

Thanks.
-Abhi
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by jeenashiva » Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:01 pm
Is the Answer C???
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by kumareswark » Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:24 am
Answer is C.
D can be confused to be answer but it does not talk about the revenue loss.
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by niraj_a » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:23 am
yep, narrowing it down to C and D, I choose C too.

D could support the argument in the sense that since other networks' revenues remained stable/higher, its possible that they did not air the controversial ad, thus keeping their advertisers.
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(e)

by rogue_rohit » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:45 am
Since I do not know what the answer is yet, I will go against the public opinion and choose (e) :)

Reasoning -

What do analysts believe? - "The controversial program led to NBN’s loss of so much revenue".

So if any statement which opposes the above statement should be our answer.

When I look at (e) it opposes what analysts believe and says that the broadcast of the controversial program has resulted in increase in advertising revenues for other networks. Hence it opposes what analysts belief and hence it is my choice for answer.


On the other hand, popular choice (c) doesn't talk about effect of controversial program on the advertising revenues, it just talks about the decrease in revenues are due to decrease in number of advertisements which was a decision of advertisers. So the broadcast of controversial program could still be the reason for decrease in the number of advertisements.

I will be happy to know opinion of other people
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by Indradeep » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:02 pm
Clear cut answer - C
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by abhi75 » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:17 am
Can someone please provide the reasoning behind C.
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by nikhilagrawal » Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:32 am
I will also with E
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C/E reasoning

by stop@800 » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:58 pm
rogue_rohit,
So if any statement which opposes the above statement should be our answer.

We are not weakening the argument, we need to find stmt which does not strngthen.
It can be something absolutely out of context also.



E:
The month following the broadcast of the controversial
program is typically one in which networks experience
an increase in advertising revenue.

generally after controversial programs advertisement increase [for NBN and all other broadcasting networks]
but
after broadcast of this political controversial program ads decreased
so this program is responsible for ad decrease hence it strengthens


My vote also for C
It has nothing to do with political program so can not strengthen the argument.
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by rogue_rohit » Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:39 pm
@stop800 - if a statement opposes an argument, isn't it given then that statement does not support the argument as well.

I see what you mean by "generally after controversial programs advertisement increase [for NBN and all other broadcasting networks]
but after broadcast of this political controversial program ads decreased
so this program is responsible for ad decrease hence it strengthens"

However, I do not agree with second part of your statement because
1) Reading (e) and passage you get no information about the type of controversial program
2) (e) says "THE controversial program" not "a" or just "controversial program", hence it is referring to that specific controversial program.

What do you think of my reasoning for (c) not being a right choice? Is it flawed? If yes, how?


Am I overthinking this one or just missing a point? Can somebody please give a strong reasoning for (c) to be a correct answer
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by kris77 » Thu May 12, 2016 1:14 pm
It seems to me that the right answer is E.
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