QUESTION TEXT: Inez: In these poor economic times, people…
QUESTION TYPE: Method of Reasoning
CONCLUSION: There’s no advantage to hiring experts to appraise our techniques.
REASONING: We’d have to raise the prices if we hired outside experts, and it would be useless, because our customers are already experts.
ANALYSIS: Anika makes a compelling argument. There’s no advantage to the plan: the customers are already experts. And we’d have to raise prices, so the plan would turn customers away.
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- CORRECT. The plan would make people buy less. There’s be no advantage, because the customers can judge quality for themselves. And there’d be a disadvantage: we’d have to raise prices.
- The plan won’t be effective: the expert customers can judge quality for themselves.
- Anika doesn’t propose any alternative.
- Anika agrees that we could hire experts. She just thinks it’s useless, since the customers are also experts.
- There’s no counterexample; Anika doesn’t mention any specific situation.
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