[求助]TT GWD-5-21

silviaqiu · 发表于 2006-7-19 15:54:00

Q21:

An overwhelming proportion of the most productive employees at SaleCo’s regional offices work not eight hours a day, five days a week, as do other SaleCo employees, but rather ten hours a day, four days a week, with Friday off. Noting this phenomenon, SaleCo’s president plans to increase overall productivity by keeping the offices closed on Fridays and having all employees work the same schedule—ten hours a day, four days a week.

Which of the following, if true, provides the most reason to doubt that the president’s plan, if implemented, will achieve its stated purpose?

Typically, a SaleCo employee’s least productive hours in the workplace are the early afternoon hours.
None of the employees who work four days a week had volunteered to work that schedule, but all were assigned to it by their supervisors.
Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.
Employees at SaleCo are compensated not on the basis of how many hours a week they work but on the basis of how productive they are during the hours they are at work.(C)
Those SaleCo employees who have a four-day workweek do not take any of their office work to do at home on Fridays.

C 选项的意思应该是说,每天多出来的那两个小时一般员工都是自己做事,从而可以不会受到其他同事的打扰,我怎么觉得这个选项是加强呢

我认为B选项才是削弱啊

silviaqiu · 发表于 2006-7-20 00:25:00

再顶！

kdjd · 发表于 2006-7-20 00:35:00

我也觉得B是对的。
想了想C，是不是因为原来那些工作10小时的人比8小时的多出两小时的可以不受干扰的时间，但如果按the president’s plan，大家都按10小时工作了，就没有这多出来的2小时了。强调的是all employees和部分的关系。

silviaqiu · 发表于 2006-7-20 01:28:00

那我觉得如果是这样的话c离题目好象有点远了，需要架好几个桥才到呢……

就是说，要有这样的假设，就是单独工作并不会提高工作效率，或者说，员工在家里也会自觉得工作两小时，这样使得在家里和在单位单独多工作两小时没有区别，从而weaken结论，但是我觉得做逻辑题有个比较基本的要求就是要就事论事、就题论题，自己臆想的假设不能随便成立，而这个选项真的需要我们做很多联想才能weaken……

mbz · 发表于 2006-7-20 01:58:00

please look at the boldfaced words below:

Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.

If it says undisturbed, it should mean the two hours alone are quality hours. Don't think too much outside of this context. otherwise we can think of many many possibilities, some good, some bad, and can continue to argue without end. Right?

silviaqiu · 发表于 2006-7-20 02:13:00

以下是引用mbz在2006-7-20 1:58:00的发言：

please look at the boldfaced words below:

Working ten hours a day has allowed the most productive employees to work two hours alone each day in their respective offices relatively undisturbed by fellow employees.

If it says undisturbed, it should mean the two hours alone are quality hours. Don't think too much outside of this context. otherwise we can think of many many possibilities, some good, some bad, and can continue to argue without end. Right?

yeah. It is just because the two hours are quality time that I think choice B is a choice that strengthens the conclusion rathen than one that weakens.

pls explain it in more details for me.

Thx a lot!

kdjd · 发表于 2006-7-20 10:40:00

C是就事论事啊，没有加入任何新的东西。
可是对于B，我真的觉得也挺WEAKEN的，B表示那些工作10小时的是被选出来的不具有普遍代表性，可能只有这部分人适合工作10小时，而不是全体员工。记得OG11里有一道类似的题。

gonghao · 发表于 2006-7-20 11:22:00

一天8小时工作5天，S老板不满意，要禽兽不如得要求员工一天干10小时，上4天班，理由是觉得这样能提高生产率

问weaken

只要说这个令人发指得计划是没什么用得，不会提高生产率得

C说10小时里，有2小时是不受干扰得自己做事

这样的2个小时，自己在自己办公室做自己的事情，这样会提高生产率？？？这样的2小时等于没有，实际做事情的时间就8小时一天，而才干4天，这老板亏大了。

还不如干5天呢。

B无非就是说大家是被逼的，被逼怎么了，只要能干活，就能提高生产率，即使用鞭子抽也再所不息。以前老外不就这么对中国人的吗

silviaqiu · 发表于 2006-7-20 12:26:00

自己工作就不能提高生产效率吗?这就像说想考gmat就必须去上xdf,因为如果都是自己学的话一定是无效率的

gonghao · 发表于 2006-7-20 13:33:00

题目是说overall productivity，没有交流，没有同事的合作，何来的overall productivity的提高？

自己做自己的事，如何能保证overall productivity的提高？

最弱的讲法，就是不确定，也许可能，也许也不可能。

B，虽说是不情愿被逼的，但是还是大家一起工作了，overall producrivity还是会提高的

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