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Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Joshi is clearly letting campaign contributions influence his vote

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ashutosh_73 wrote:

Hi Experts,

I find (A), (D), (E) equally tempting. Can't find errors to eliminate them, please clarify.

Stimulus breakdown:

P1: Re-election received more financial support from property developers

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P2: voting recd. favors the interest of property developers

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Conclusion:letting campaign contri influence his vote in cityC

Here's(D):

Quote:

presumes that one thing is the cause of another when it could easily be an effect ofit

Joshi is on the city council rightnow . Hispast voting record favors the interests of property developers. Property developers are supporting his re-election campaign with contributions.

The author concludes from this that the campaign contributions are CAUSING his pro-property votes. But what if he wasalready pro-property, and THAT caused property developers to support him with contributions? The argument totally misses this -- it assumes that the contributions caused the votes, but it could easily be the other way around.

(D)
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Statistics : Posted by GMATNinja • on 22 Aug 2018, 04:39 • Replies 5 • Views 3735



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