QUESTION TYPE: Flawed Reasoning
CONCLUSION: High tech equipment is not necessary for high productivity.
REASONING: High productivity depends on the adequate training of workers.
ANALYSIS: It is quite possible (and probable) that high productivity needs both adequately trained workers and high tech equipment. That’s one flaw.
The correct answer takes a slightly difficult approach, and answer choice E is an excellent trap.
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- It’s a stated requirement for high productivity, not high tech equipment.
- CORRECT. No high tech equipment means no training which means no productivity. Bad news.
- The stimulus does not say high productivity is desirable. It simply describes how to achieve it.
- The stimulus only tells us that “adequate” training is required. It does not claim we should educate forever and ever.
- This is very tricky to eliminate. The stimulus does not claim that high-tech cannot contribute. It claims that it is not necessary to high productivity. Perhaps high-tech can get you from 90% to 95%, but you were already highly productive.
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