LSAT-13-1-22

snow_mountain · 发表于 2003-12-3 21:07:00

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.

答案C。不明白，另外，

这道题问什么：是不是下面哪个答案说明这些销售人员并没有比15年前差了。

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深海的小美人鱼 · 发表于 2003-12-3 21:45:00

是说下面哪个答案说明过去的15年里雇佣销售人员的要求没有松懈和马虎.所以,应该是C

snow_mountain · 发表于 2003-12-3 23:59:00

呵呵，问题是明白了。不过还是不懂为什么是C。

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？

Snazzy · 发表于 2003-12-4 10:55:00

please, what did the president say? what does "pass over" mean here? thanks

snow_mountain · 发表于 2003-12-5 16:20:00

hi, where is the little mermaid? can you explain why C？ still cannot understand.

sigh.

Bensontuo · 发表于 2019-7-27 15:27:35

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 "

Answer C.

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