Method of ReasoningDiff: Hardest

Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: West thinks Haynes is a bad inspector because he handled half of the broken returns. Young points out that Haynes actually checks the majority of all products the company sells.

Conclusion: West's conclusion that Haynes is the worst inspector is based on an incomplete or misleading interpretation of the data.

Reasoning: While Haynes is responsible for half of the defective returns, he also inspects more than half of the total appliances sold.

Analysis: Young employs a classic counter-argument by introducing a missing denominator. West is looking at raw numbers, but Young points out that when you look at the percentage of total work performed, Haynes might actually be the most efficient inspector on the team. It’s the workplace equivalent of blaming the only person doing any work for making the most mistakes. Look for an answer choice that describes Young's method as providing additional information that undermines the significance of the evidence West cited.

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Young responds to West's argument by

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Young denies an implicit presupposition (that inspection workloads are comparable), thereby undermining West’s inference from share of returns to relative quality.
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