I understood C to mean that "Many people moving into Weston failed to notify either the post office or the driver's license bureau that they had moved to the city" it would strengthen the conclusion because we now have even more reason to assume that reported population number would be low. As in, the real count of people moving into Weston is lower than what could/can be reported in the census. Was it silly to interpret it that way? What should I have caught in the stimulus or answer choice that would not led me go down that road of thinking?
If people failed to notify the post office that they moved into the city, then we would expect the total number of household moving into the city to be underreported. This weakens the argument.
D was my first choice but I changed to A because the argument says "regardless of age." Can someone please clarify why it's D a little further even though it stats regardless of age.
@Chi. D states that most people moving out of Weston are parents with children, implying that entire families are moving out at a time. D also states that those staying or moving in to Weston are older people who live alone.
Because the upcoming census counts all residents regardless of age, this implies that the next census will record mostly entire families consisting of at least 1 parent and at least 1 child leaving Weston in pairs at the very least. Meanwhile, older people are moving in to Weston 1 at a time.
Maybe just me but my initial reaction upon reading this is okayyyy what about birth and death rates? What if the birth rate is so high that it eclipses the death rate and the rate of households moving out? But I guess the answers didn't go that route.
Confused why C doesn't strengthen the argument. I thought a census was self-reported (like a survey), so if you fail to report moving in to Weston then that will artificially decrease Weston's population, ie. next year's census will show a decline in Weston's population. The census won't be absolutely correct regardless
im just thinking of weakening here, even though this is a strengthen question.
if it asks to weaken, would it look something like this:
"people moving into the city are ones looking to start new families and people moving out are ones that were living alone" - this would imply population might actually not decline, while also does not contradict premise "households moving out is greater than households moving in"
its not a great weakener in the sense that we dont know if pop would grow or remain the same, but hopefully not decline like the conclusion claims.
could you also argue that for answer C it really does not have an effect on the population since those moving in are not being recorded within the survey, so it neither has a strengthening or weakening implication on the argument because they are not being accounted for anyway?
The first time around, I completely disregarded the concept of "households" after reading the stimulus and started overanalyzing D so much that it started to sound irrelevant. Kind of scary how glossing over one word can change everything!
no, still very weak "weakener" cause it requires an unreasonable assumption that "young people dont have kids and older people with long careers have kids"
to weaken or strengthen, hold on to the original assumption gap - "household size is assumed to represent population size"
I also had C at first but my thought process for C being wrong was that it was just assuming that that many people in Weston just somehow forgot to file their address change or driver license. D you aren't assuming as much. It is not on the complete end of the strength spectrum but extremely close to the end. That's my thought process.
The census takes the actual count of people living in a neighborhood, whereas the P is about the data from the post office. So, if residents who move in fail to notify the post office etc., it is attacking the data source. No valid conclusions can be drawn from it.
I dont think C is necessarily "wrong" but more that D is the better answer. D you assume less which make the argument stronger. With C you have to assume more and hope that the assumptions are correct which we dont know from the info given.
One reason why C is wrong that I didn't see mentioned is because it says people moving into Weston failed to notify either the post office or the driver's license bureau that they had moved to the city. It doesn't say they failed to notify both. Therefore, they could still have notified one of the two and been counted in the survey.
That is actually a clue to telling us that its not just people old enough to have a license or their own address.. so it actually made it easier to select D. Its pointing us in the direction that we should be aware of the population that would not be updating licenses/addresses (aka kids) counting towards population.
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how does affirming the second assumption strengthen? wouldn't that just mean the population stays the same?
I understood C to mean that "Many people moving into Weston failed to notify either the post office or the driver's license bureau that they had moved to the city" it would strengthen the conclusion because we now have even more reason to assume that reported population number would be low. As in, the real count of people moving into Weston is lower than what could/can be reported in the census. Was it silly to interpret it that way? What should I have caught in the stimulus or answer choice that would not led me go down that road of thinking?
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If people failed to notify the post office that they moved into the city, then we would expect the total number of household moving into the city to be underreported. This weakens the argument.
Some day I'll be as confident on 4-5 star difficulty as I am on 2 star. But it is not this day.
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@besrawi I also don't really understand, they suggested I BR one of the recent questions that I got correct..
37 secs over double-checking my work, but that one was relatively simple. Yay!
Five seconds after time LETSGO
Literally was gonna go with D and then i read adults and went with E my logic makes no sense lmao
WESTON go patriots
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D was my first choice but I changed to A because the argument says "regardless of age." Can someone please clarify why it's D a little further even though it stats regardless of age.
@Chi. D states that most people moving out of Weston are parents with children, implying that entire families are moving out at a time. D also states that those staying or moving in to Weston are older people who live alone.
Because the upcoming census counts all residents regardless of age, this implies that the next census will record mostly entire families consisting of at least 1 parent and at least 1 child leaving Weston in pairs at the very least. Meanwhile, older people are moving in to Weston 1 at a time.
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Maybe just me but my initial reaction upon reading this is okayyyy what about birth and death rates? What if the birth rate is so high that it eclipses the death rate and the rate of households moving out? But I guess the answers didn't go that route.
@TheBigFatPanda thats just hearsay
Confused why C doesn't strengthen the argument. I thought a census was self-reported (like a survey), so if you fail to report moving in to Weston then that will artificially decrease Weston's population, ie. next year's census will show a decline in Weston's population. The census won't be absolutely correct regardless
@GregSchwarz it wouldn't show a decline, it just wouldnt show a growth.
@GregSchwarz that would weaken the argument anyway, you would be arguing that the population might have actually grown
Didn't even take into account the population in terms of adults living alone and adults with children
im just thinking of weakening here, even though this is a strengthen question.
if it asks to weaken, would it look something like this:
"people moving into the city are ones looking to start new families and people moving out are ones that were living alone" - this would imply population might actually not decline, while also does not contradict premise "households moving out is greater than households moving in"
its not a great weakener in the sense that we dont know if pop would grow or remain the same, but hopefully not decline like the conclusion claims.
could you also argue that for answer C it really does not have an effect on the population since those moving in are not being recorded within the survey, so it neither has a strengthening or weakening implication on the argument because they are not being accounted for anyway?
The first time around, I completely disregarded the concept of "households" after reading the stimulus and started overanalyzing D so much that it started to sound irrelevant. Kind of scary how glossing over one word can change everything!
i feel like no matter what i do these strengthen and weaken questions always confuse me! :(
Dang didn't understand the difference between household and population and got E ughhh
Can E be an answer if the question was weakening question?
no, still very weak "weakener" cause it requires an unreasonable assumption that "young people dont have kids and older people with long careers have kids"
to weaken or strengthen, hold on to the original assumption gap - "household size is assumed to represent population size"
Can get why D is right but still confused why C is wrong #help
I also had C at first but my thought process for C being wrong was that it was just assuming that that many people in Weston just somehow forgot to file their address change or driver license. D you aren't assuming as much. It is not on the complete end of the strength spectrum but extremely close to the end. That's my thought process.
The census takes the actual count of people living in a neighborhood, whereas the P is about the data from the post office. So, if residents who move in fail to notify the post office etc., it is attacking the data source. No valid conclusions can be drawn from it.
I dont think C is necessarily "wrong" but more that D is the better answer. D you assume less which make the argument stronger. With C you have to assume more and hope that the assumptions are correct which we dont know from the info given.
One reason why C is wrong that I didn't see mentioned is because it says people moving into Weston failed to notify either the post office or the driver's license bureau that they had moved to the city. It doesn't say they failed to notify both. Therefore, they could still have notified one of the two and been counted in the survey.
bruh how tf did I get this one wrong 😭 I could've sworn it would be C wtffff
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Did anyone else find themselves confused and second-guessing answer choice D, just because it said "regardless of age"?
That is actually a clue to telling us that its not just people old enough to have a license or their own address.. so it actually made it easier to select D. Its pointing us in the direction that we should be aware of the population that would not be updating licenses/addresses (aka kids) counting towards population.