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The US government has recently taken an initiative to collect and publish information on the salaries of graduating students from colleges. The salaries of the students in their first year after graduation will be published for all colleges and subject fields the colleges offer. The idea is to help the students make more informed choices about the college and the field that they choose. While the intentions are good, the results might just be the opposite. Students who pick their field based primarily on post-graduation salaries, as opposed to passion for a field, will, in all likelihood, struggle in both school and career. 
Which of the following options would help most to evaluate the given argument?
  • a)
    What is the number of colleges that will be covered by the government initiative?
  • b)
    Currently, what proportion of students who struggle in college also struggle in their careers?
  • c)
    Do some students currently pick their subject fields based on their passion?
  • d)
    Are there currently any good websites providing average salaries data for the students?
  • e)
    How will the government ensure that the data published on the salaries of the students is not biased against certain colleges?
Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?
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The US government has recently taken an initiative to collect and publish information on the salaries of graduating students from colleges. The salaries of the students in their first year after graduation will be published for all colleges and subject fields the colleges offer. The idea is to help the students make more informed choices about the college and the field that they choose. While the intentions are good, the results might just be the opposite. Students who pick their field based primarily on post-graduation salaries, as opposed to passion for a field, will, in all likelihood, struggle in both school and career. 
Which of the following options would help most to evaluate the given argument?
Argument Analysis
 
 
Pre-Thinking
Conclusion Clarification
The conclusion states that while the intentions of the government are good, the results might just be the opposite. The intention here is helping students in making an informed choice while the expected result by the author is opposite to it, i.e. the author expects that students are quite likely to struggle in school as well as career because they will choose a field of study based primarily on salary considerations instead of interest/passion.
Pre-Thinking Approach
In order to evaluate the linkage, we’ll pre think assumptions by thinking of conditions that will decrease our belief in the conclusion. The assumptions then will be that these conditions don’t exist. To do so, let’s look at linkage 1 and understand the conditions under which it doesn’t hold. 
Linkage#1 – (ref. logical structure)
  • Falsification Condition:  What if currently, students’ decisions about the college they want to attend and their respective subject fields are based primarily on the post-graduation salary? In such a case, the plan will not have any adverse effect on the current situation of the students and the author will not be able to conclude that the result might be opposite (of the good intentions). . Thus, the linkage will not hold.
  • Assumption: At least some students currently don’t choose a field based primarily on salary considerations instead of their passions.
An answer choice that evaluates any of the fundamental assumptions made by the author will be the correct choice. With this pre-thinking in mind, let’s evaluate the answer choices.
Answer Choices
A
What is the number of colleges that will be covered by the government initiative?
Incorrect – Irrelevant
The passage says that the salaries of the graduating students will be published for all colleges and subject fields the colleges offer. As all the US colleges have been covered, the number of colleges is irrelevant to the evaluation
B
Currently, what proportion of students who struggle in college also struggle in their careers?
Incorrect – Irrelevant
The proportion of students in this category is not important. What’s important is how students are currently making their choices about the college they want to attend and the field they want to study.
C
Do some students currently pick their subject fields based on their passion?
Correct
This choice is written along the lines of our pre-thinking. If the answer to the question is yes, the argument is strengthened. Otherwise, it is weakened.
D
Are there currently any good websites providing average salaries data for the students?
Incorrect – Irrelevant
Even if there are websites doing so, there is no information given to believe that the students are accessing these websites currently or that they are already using such information to make decisions on the stated issues.
E
How will the government ensure that the data published on the salaries of the students is not biased against certain colleges?
Incorrect – Irrelevant
The method employed to ensure that the data is not biased will not help us evaluate the author’s argument, which is based on the possible effect of any such data could have on the mindset of the students and their future. Also, given the contents of the passage, there is no way to evaluate the answer yielded by this question.
 
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