QUESTION TEXT: Letter to the editor: After Baerton's factory…
QUESTION TYPE: Weaken – Exception
CONCLUSION: Many people who filed injury claims just wanted money to support themselves, since they had lost their jobs.
REASONING: Many claims were filed soon after the factory closed and the men lost their jobs.
ANALYSIS: This conclusion is possible. But it’s also possible that the injured men worried there’d be no money left if they didn’t file claims right away, since the factory had closed.
That’s just one possible reason. The wrong answers points out several others.
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- This shows that many workers only became eligible to file claims once the factory closed.
- This shows that many injured workers feared getting fired if they filed a claim. But now that they’ve lost their jobs, they’ve got nothing left to lose if they file a claim.
- CORRECT. This supports the argument. If most workers file the day they’re injured, then why did many workers file after the factory closed? They weren’t getting injured that day – the factory had shut down.
- This is similar to B. Before, the workers would have lost money and their jobs by filing. Now, the workers have nothing to lose by filing a claim.
- This would mean that many workers injured themselves in the weeks before the plant closed. They were depressed that they would lose their jobs, and got clumsy.
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