Self-study
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Summary
Technological progress is required for economic growth and widespread prosperity. Technological progress also causes a worker’s particular skills to be less crucial to production. A worker’s satisfaction depends on the belief that their work is difficult and requires uncommon skills.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Clearly, then, technological progress may cause worker satisfaction to decrease.
10.
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a
decreases the quality ██ ████ ████████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know anything about the quality of products from the stimulus.
b
provides benefits only ██ █████ █████ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████ ██ ██
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus who, if anyone in particular, benefits from technological progress. We only know that it is required for economic growth and widespread prosperity.
c
is generally opposed ██ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ████████ ██ ██
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus whether workers support or oppose technological progress. They may nonetheless support it because it could make their jobs easier, less time consuming, and so forth.
d
causes workers to ████ ████ ████████████ ██ █████ ████
This answer is strongly supported. We know from the stimulus that worker satisfaction depends on workers believing that their work is difficult. Yet, technological progress causes a worker’s importance to decrease.
e
eliminates many workers' ████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus whether any jobs would be eliminated. To say that a worker’s role becomes less crucial is not equivalent to saying the worker’s role would be eliminated.