标题: LSAT-13-1-22 [打印本页] 作者: snow_mountain 时间: 2003-12-3 21:07 标题: LSAT-13-CR1-22 22. At the end of the year, Wilson’s Department Store awards free merchandise to its top salespeople. When presented with the fact that the number of salespeople receiving these awards has declined markedly over the past fifteen years, the newly appointed president of the company responded, “In that case, since our award criterion at present is membership in the top third of our sales force, we can also say that the number of salespeople passed over for these awards has similarly declined.” Which one of the following is an regard to hiring salespeople have not become more lax over the past fifteen years. (A) Policies at Wilson’s with regard to hiring salespeople have not become more lax over the past fifteen years. (B) The number of salespeople at Wilson’s has increased over the past fifteen years. (C) The criterion used by Wilson’s for selecting its award recipients has remained the same for the past fifteen years. (D) The average total sales figures for Wilson’s salespeople have been declining for fifteen years. (E) Wilson’s calculates its salespeople’s sales figures in the same way as it did fifteen years ago.
假如获奖标准不变的话，得奖的人数又少了，不是正好说明公司雇用标准下降了吗？作者: Snazzy 时间: 2003-12-4 10:55
please, what did the president say? what does "pass over" mean here? thanks作者: snow_mountain 时间: 2003-12-5 16:20 标题: LSAT-13-1-22 hi, where is the little mermaid? can you explain why C？ still cannot understand.
sigh.作者: Bensontuo 时间: 2019-7-27 15:27
snow_mountain 发表于 2003-12-3 21:07
22. At the end of the year, Wilson’s DepartmentStore awards free merchandise to its topsalespeople. ...
套路題：
From the numbers of the reward recipients decreased to conclude that the ability to sales of the sales people declined.
1. What if the criterion is more difficult
2. What if the " qualification " of hiring sales people is not as strict as before, and a huge numbers of sales people are not as good as before are now the majority of the salespeople
So, what the question really asks us to do is to spot the " necessary assumption " based on the argument with one extra premise as " the hiring process of salesman has not become more lax over the past 15 years.
Core of the argument
If no sloppy hiring process + awards qualified sales people truly decreased, then it must be the ability to make sales declined.
Well, we only have one variable left - What if the criterion be more difficult ?
So, all we have to do is just look for " Criterion must not changed "