- Mon May 11, 2020 12:06 pm
#75371
Hi Aysha,
My take on answer choice E is that it makes it harder to understand how the editorial staff could be making so many mistakes, and thus more likely that hiring more of them isn't working (a strengthen answer). I saw it this way: if there are (from the stimulus) more editors and (from answer choice E) fewer reporters, then each editor has to check the work of fewer people. That means it's more likely that having more editors isn't working to fix the problem of factual errors.
Are you assuming that the editorial staff is somehow being forced to pick up additional reporter-type work because of having fewer reporters? If so, that would be importing additional information into the answer choice that we don't have from the stimulus or the answer. That's something the section directions ask us not to do in logical reasoning. Since we'd need that extra information to make answer choice E weaken the conclusion, we can safely reject it.
Answer choice C is correct, because it points out a relevant difference between this newspaper and its competitors. It suggests that the reason the newspaper runs more corrections than its competitors is not that its editors are dropping the ball, but rather that its competitors don't do a very good job of checking their articles and making corrections. By raising that possibility, answer choice C makes it less likely the editors are dropping the ball (undermining the conclusion that the strategy of hiring more editors was a bad one).
I hope this helps!
Jeremy
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