PT109.S1.Q7

PrepTest 109 - Section 1 - Question 7

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Consultant: Most workers do not have every item they produce judged for quality, but each piece a freelance writer authors is evaluated. ████ ██ ███ █████████ ███████ ███████ ████ ████████████ █████

Structure: Phenomenon-Hypothesis

The consultant's argument provides a causal hypothesis explaining the phenomenon of why freelance writers "produce such high-quality work." He argues that the reason they produce work of this quality is that each piece written by a freelance writer receives evaluation, unlike the products most workers produce.

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7.

The consultant's statements, if true, ████ ████████ ███████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

a

A piece authored ██ █ █████████ ██████ ██ █████████ █████████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ████████
Incorrect. We need to pay close attention to the wording here in (A). We know that not "every" item produced by other workers is evaluated for quality, but it's still possible that most — i.e., "the majority" — of items these workers produce receives an evaluation. And we don't know how strict this evaluation is compared to the evaluations received by freelance writers' pieces. So we can't say (A) is supported by the stimulus.
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b

By having every █████ ██ █████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ████████████ █████
Correct. (B) accurately identifies the causal assumption the consultant is making. Since the consultant argues that freelance writers having every piece they write evaluated for quality causes the high quality of freelance writers' work, (B) is strongly supported.
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c

No other workers ███████ ██████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ █████████ ████████
Incorrect. As we discussed above, we don't know anything about the quality of work produced by other workers. The stimulus doesn't give us enough information for a comparison between the quality of freelance writers' work and other workers'.
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d

Only freelance writers ████ █████ ████ ████ ███████ █████████ ███ ████████
Incorrect. The consultant says that "most" workers don't have every item they produce evaluated for quality, not that freelance writers are the only workers who do. There could be other types of workers who also receive an evaluation of every item they produce.
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e

Some workers produce ████████████ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ███ █████ ████ ████ ███████ ██ ██████ ███ ████████
Incorrect. We don't know anything about the quality of work produced by workers who don't receive an evaluation for every item they produce. The only work whose quality we know about is produced by freelance writers, who do receive an evaluation on every item they produce.
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