Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: According to a widely held economic hypothesis, imposing strict enviro

I understand that this is a common GMAT trope with weaken, specifically that the answer is an alternate explanation to the arguments conclusion.
My issue with this specific question is that the answer provided does not provide a direct alternative explanation.

Yes, it's fully possible that investment in education and job training promotes economic growth, but the prompt provides no correlative implication that this is the case. We are simply supposed to assume that "duh more education and training means better economy always" even though that may not always be the case in reality nor, again, is there any suggestion that this is explicitly true in the prompt.

There's more than one GMAT official problem where reliance on reader-crafted stories/assumptions such as the one required here wind up leading the user to the wrong answer.
How are you supposed to tell when it's appropriate and not, especially given the case where the narrative
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Statistics : Posted by MartyMurray • on 29 Sep 2007, 15:55 • Replies 20 • Views 61783

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