QUESTION TEXT: We learn to use most of the…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Technological expertise wouldn’t benefit students’ job prospects any more than learning to read, write and study math.
REASONING: Most of the technology we use is designed to be used by non-experts.
ANALYSIS: This argument confuses today’s technology with the technology that will be required for jobs in the future. It also ignores the possibility that technical knowledge may help you get a job even if most technology doesn’t require technical knowledge.
It could be that some very important workplace technology does require technical knowledge (even if most consumer technology doesn’t.)
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- This doesn’t matter. What matters is how effective that education is.
- This is weaker than it sounds, when you negate it. It could mean that skill in operating those machines is enhanced only 5% of the time (more than almost never.) And skill could be enhanced very, very slightly. This doesn’t really affect the argument that regular education is about as good.
- CORRECT. If most jobs do demand skill in operating machines intended for experts then students would benefit from technical training to operate those machines.
- The argument isn’t hurt if it would be possible for students to learn both.
- This would be helpful, but the argument wouldn’t be hurt if it was occasionally more useful to be technically skilled.
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