QUESTION TEXT: The highest-ranking detectives in the city's police…
QUESTION TYPE: Paradox
PARADOX: The high-ranking detectives are the most skilled, yet their success rate isn’t any better than average detectives.
ANALYSIS: None of the wrong answers are at all relevant to success rates. On paradox questions, keep focused on what you’re trying to explain.
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- That’s nice. But we’re trying to explain the success rates of other detectives: those who are skilled and high ranking, but have average success rates.
- The length of time worked isn’t necessarily relevant to the success rate. We still don’t know why the highest ranking detectives only have average success rates.
- This doesn’t even distinguish between high ranking detectives and other detectives. Useless.
- CORRECT. High-ranking detectives get harder cases. That could explain why their success rate isn’t any higher than the rates of lower-ranking detectives.
- This doesn’t say much about their success rates. It just tells us about their backgrounds.
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