PT149.S1.Q7

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PrepTest 149 - Section 1 - Question 7

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Rita: No matter how you look at them, Conclusion your survey results are misleading. █████ ██████ █████████ ███ ██ ████ ████████ ███ ███████ ███ █████████ ███ ███████ ███████████████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Rita thinks that Hiro's survey results are misleading. Why? Because the numbers collected are serious underestimates, since people generally lie on surveys.

Speaker 2 Summary

Hiro claims that the rates these numbers represent are probably close to being accurate. Hiro concedes that the raw numbers are an underestimate, but says that the important part is whether some people lie more than others.

Objective

We need a statement Rita and Hiro disagree on. They disagree on whether Hiro’s survey results are misleading. Rita thinks the results are misleading because the raw numbers are underestimates. Hiro does not think they are misleading because the rates that the raw numbers represent are probably close to accurate.

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Rita and Hiro disagree over ███████

the survey results ███ ██████████ ██████████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████████

Rita and Hiro disagree on this statement. Rita states the results are misleading no matter how you examine them. Hiro disagrees, because when you examine the rates instead of the raw numbers, the results are probably accurate.

people tend to ███ ██ ███████ █████ ██ ███████

Both speakers agree on this statement. Rita claims that the survey results are misleading because people lie on such surveys. Hiro concedes this point.

a different type ██ ███████ ████ █ ██████ █████ ███████ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ██████████

Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Both speakers' comments are limited to the results of Hiro’s survey specifically.

the raw numbers █████████ ███ ███████ ██████████████

Both speakers agree on this statement. Rita claims that the survey results are misleading because the raw numbers are serious underestimates. Hiro concedes this point, but suggests to look at the rates instead of the raw numbers.

the number of ██████ ████████ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ████████ ███████

Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Neither Rita nor Hiro makes any mention of the total number of people surveyed.

Difficulty

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86% of people who answer get this correct

This is a moderately difficult question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 132

142

75% 152

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which one speaker in the stimulus would say "Yes" and the other would say "No"

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