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Summary
The author argues that the government will likely lose its skilled researchers to the higher-paying private sector unless those researchers are sufficiently motivated by a sense of public duty.
Notable Assumptions
The argument fails to consider that there could be a number of possible incentives to work for the government other than a sense of public duty. In order to conclude that researchers must be motivated by a sense of public duty if they’re to stay with the government, the author must assume that there is nothing else that could incentivize them to stay.
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a
Government research scientists ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████████████ ███ █████ ████████ █████████████ ████ ███ ████████ ██████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████
b
None of the ████████ ██████████ █████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ █████ ████ ████ ███ ████████████ ███████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████
c
The government does ███ ██████ ██ ████ ████████ ██████████ ███ ███ ██████ ███████ ██ ████ ███ █████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ██████ █████ ███████ ████████ ███████████
d
The government does ███ ███████ ███ ████████ ██████████ ████ █████████ ████ ███████ ██████████ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ███ ███ █████ ████████ ████ ████████
e
Research scientists employed ██ ███ ███████ ██████ █████████ ████ ██████ █████ ████ ██ ███████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████