#14 - The commissioner has announced that Judge Khalid, who

[anureet]

I picked the wrong answer E partly because I saw two flaws in the stimulus which resonated in option E and not D.

The first flaw is it equates the qualities of a group with the qualities of an individual member of that group which is evident in options E and D.

The second flaw is that it talks about two different scenarios one in the past and one that will happen currently and equates their characteristics together. For example, Amlec panel showed itself to be reasonable and fair. The simdon dispute are justified in the confidence they have expressed in the reasonableness and fairness of the arbitrator. There are two different scenarios one in the past and one in present and characteristics don't necessarily have to be the same for both of them. This is why I chose E because it showed two different scenarios one is past and one present whereas D fails to do that

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

The problem with answer choice (E), Anureet, is that it doesn't make the first flaw you mentioned. It does not incorrectly jump from a statement about the whole to a statement about a part of the whole. That's because answer choice (E) gives us specific information that allows us to draw that conclusion about individuals. The inclusion of the word "unanimously" tells us exactly how each person in answer choice (E) felt about the landmark. They were unanimous---each person agreed with the others. Therefore, answer choice (E) is not flawed in the same way as the stimulus because the conclusion in answer choice (E) is justified.

I'm also not sold that answer choice (E) has two scenarios, with one in the past. All the language in answer choice (E) is present tense.

For answer choice (D), we do have the shift from knowledge about a whole (the whole company's sales) to a part (a single realtor's sales) .

Hope that helps!

[elijahpitt123]

Can anyone explain why answer choice B is wrong? I was stuck between B and D but chose B because it seemed to fit the stimulus better. i.e. the stimulus assumed that just because someone was in a group that shared that characteristic, the individual would have that chracteristic, which is the flaw made in B.

[Luke Haqq]

Hi elijahpitt123!

You comment,

the stimulus assumed that just because someone was in a group that shared that characteristic, the individual would have that chracteristic, which is the flaw made in B.

Your summary of the stimulus seems right, but this doesn't seem to be the flaw made in answer choice (B). One key difference is we're told that the person in (B) has the given characteristic.

Rather, your summary points to answer choice (D). That answer choice involves drawing a conclusion about the characteristics of individual based on the characteristics of the group of which the individual is a member. More specifically, it makes the flaw of concluding that just because Arcande Realty sold far fewer houses, one of the members of this group must also have sold fewer houses.