PT108.S3.Q9

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PrepTest 108 - Section 3 - Question 9

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Support In a recent poll of chief executive officers (CEOs) of 125 large corporations, the overwhelming majority claimed that employee training and welfare is of the same high priority as customer satisfaction. ██ ███ ███████ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ ████████████ ███████ █████████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ███████████ ██ █████████ ██ ██████████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that the widely held belief that top management at large companies acts indifferently to their employees’ needs and desires is baseless because a recent poll of CEOs at 125 large companies showed that the vast majority of these CEOs claimed to highly value employee training and welfare.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The author reasons that since the vast majority of the 125 CEOs polled said that they highly value employee well-being, the popular belief that CEOs act indifferently to their employees’ wants and needs is unfounded. However, the argument is vulnerable to the criticism that the CEOs’ responses aren’t truly indicative of how they act toward their employees. Though they overwhelmingly claim to highly value their employees’ wants and needs, they may not actually behave that way.

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The argument is most vulnerable ██ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██

fails to define ██████████ ███ ████ ████ ███████████

The author doesn’t need to define “top management.” A CEO is at the top of a company’s hierarchy.

presumes, without giving ██████████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ █████████ ████ ███ █████████ █ ███ ████████

We don’t know if the author presumes this. The author only claims that CEOs don’t behave indifferently toward their employees’ needs and aspirations. He doesn’t address whether CEOs personally feel indifferent toward their employees’ needs and aspirations.

presumes, without giving ██████████████ ████ ███ █████ ██████████ ████ ██ ██ █████████

The author doesn’t discuss whether CEOs’ priorities tend to be misplaced. He just argues that the belief that CEOs behave indifferently toward their employees’ wants and needs is unfounded.

presumes, without giving ██████████████ ████ ███ █████ ██████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████ ████████

This is a key possibility that the author overlooks. Just because CEOs claim to highly value their employees’ wants and needs, that doesn’t necessarily mean that CEOs don’t act indifferently toward their employees’ wants and needs.

makes a generalization █████ ██ ██ ████████████████ ██████

The sample that the author references, of 125 CEOs, is representative of top management. CEOs are at the top of their companies’ management hierarchy.

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70% of people who answer get this correct

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25% 138

153

75% 168

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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. Learn more.

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