PT125.S2.Q1

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PrepTest 125 - Section 2 - Question 1

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Executive: Our company is proud of its long history of good relations with its employees. ██ █████ █ ██████ ██████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████ ████ ██ █████ ███ █████████ ███████ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ███████████ ████████ ████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ███████ ██████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ███████ ████ ███

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that our company treats our employees fairly. This is based on the results of a survey of retirees of the company. In the survey, respondents reported that they had always been treated fairly during the course of their careers with the company.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The argument relies on an unrepresentative sample. The survey is of “retirees.” But the conclusion is about how “employees” are treated. It’s reasonable to think retirees of the company may have more positive opinions of the company, because retirees are those who have stuck with the company until retirement. It’s also reasonable to think that how retirees were treated in the past does not necessarily reflect how current employees are treated.

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The executive's argument is flawed ██ ████ ██

presents as its ████ ███████ █ █████ ████ ███ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████████

(A) describes circular reasoning. But the argument does not rely on a premise that restates its conclusion. The premise involves survey results. The conclusion is that “we treat our employees fairly.”

relies on evidence ████ ██████ ██ ████████

The evidence consists of survey results. There’s no reason to think that the results of the survey cannot be verified. Just count up the responses. In any case, there’s nothing flawed with relying on evidence that can’t be verified.

equivocates on the ████ ████████

There’s no reason to think “fairly” is used in two different ways. Each use of “fairly” has the same definition: treated in a way that is right or just.

bases a generalization ██ █ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ██ ██████████████

The argument’s conclusion is a generalization concerning how “employees” are treated. But the evidence is based on a sample of retirees — their opinion might not be representative of employees’ opinion.

presumes, without providing ██████████████ ████ █████ ███████ ██ ████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ████

The author never compares older methods to news ones. The author might believe that the same managing methods are used, and that those methods treat employees both new and past fairly.

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75% 144

Analysis

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Flaw or descriptive weakening

Stems that ask us to articulate a flaw in the stimulus' argument, either in abstract terms or by pointing out a weakness.

Stimulus Tags

Sampling

Stimuli that take data from a small pool (e.g. college students) and draw conclusions about a larger pool (e.g. people in general), where the sample pool may be unrepresentative of the broader pool (e.g. measuring science literacy).

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