All Courses
Explore Courses UPSC Exam UPSC Test Series Free Notes EduRev Infinity Get the App Login Join for Free
Sign in Open App
GMAT Exam  >  GMAT Questions  >  Any announcement authorized by the head of th... Start Learning for Free
SaveJoin the Discussion on the App
Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.
The reasoning is flawed because the argument
  • a)
    does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcements
  • b)
    overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcements
  • c)
    leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcements
  • d)
    assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcement's importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importance
  • e)
    fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasion
Correct answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?
FREE This question is part of
Download PDF Attempt Test
Download PDF Attempt this Test
Most Upvoted Answer
Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important...
Let's analyze each answer choice and see which one correctly identifies the flaw in the argument:
(A) does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcements.
This answer choice points out that the argument lacks clarity in defining what qualifies as an announcement. While this may be a potential flaw, it does not address the main issue in the argument.
(B) overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcements.
This answer choice suggests that there could be individuals other than the head of the department who are authorized to issue announcements. While this could be a flaw, it is not the central flaw in the argument.
(C) leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcements.
This answer choice highlights the possibility that the head of the department may never actually authorize any announcements. While this could be a flaw, it is not the main flaw in the argument.
(D) assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcement's importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importance.
This answer choice correctly identifies the flaw in the argument. The argument assumes that any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important, without considering the possibility that there could be other factors influencing the importance of an announcement. It points out that while satisfying the condition of authorization by the head of the department may be enough to ensure an announcement's importance, it is not necessary for its importance.
(E) fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasion.
This answer choice highlights the distinction between the importance of the position held by someone and the importance of the specific announcement they are making. While this could be a flaw, it is not the central flaw in the argument.
Therefore, the correct answer is (D) because it accurately identifies the flaw in the reasoning presented in the argument.
Attention GMAT Students!
To make sure you are not studying endlessly, EduRev has designed GMAT study material, with Structured Courses, Videos, & Test Series. Plus get personalized analysis, doubt solving and improvement plans to achieve a great score in GMAT.
< Previous Question Next Question >
Explore Courses for GMAT exam

Similar GMAT Doubts

On May 5th, 1997, the European edition of Business Tech Magazine led with Hoffman’s cover story "Internet Communities: How Theyre Shaping Electronic Commerce". This cover story highlights the extent to which the term virtual community has become almost synonymous with various forms of group-CMC (computer-mediated communication), including email-list forums, chat-systems such as IRC, web-based discussion areas and UseNet news-groups. There was no debate in the Business Tech Magazine article as to whether the group-CMC discussions are really communities, rather how the community, as opposed to content, can be used to encourage people to return to a particular part of cyberspace for commercial gain. In a similar vein, Simpson and Armstrong in "Internet Gain" argue that ignoring virtual communities would be a great loss of a marketing tool for businesses. They define virtual communities as computer-mediated space where there is an integration of content and communication with an emphasis on member-generated content. Not all virtual community commentators agree with the Spartan position taken by Hoffman. Rheingold, one of the prime popularizers of the term virtual community, provides us with a more emotive definition in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. According to Rheingold, "virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace". Rheingolds definition is extremely popular and has been quoted in many discussions about virtual communities. As discussed below, for social scientists, particularly sociologists, Rheingolds definition raises many issues, especially concerning the notion of community. This is because Rheingold argues via a variety of analogies from the real world such as homesteading that virtual communities are indeed new forms of "community". In fact, Rheingold implies that virtual communities are actually "a kind of ultimate flowering of a community". Moreover, Rheingold maintains that whenever computer-mediated communications technology becomes available; people inevitably create communities with it. Rheingold can thus be labeled as a technological determinist as he holds that there is a predictable relationship between technology and peoples behavior. The debate over the validity of Rheingolds position has raised doubts about the existence of virtual communities and the appropriate use of the term. Weinreich claims that the idea of virtual communities must be wrong because the community is a collective of kinship networks that share a common geographic region, a common history, and a shared value system, usually rooted in a common religion. In other words, Weinreich rejects the existence of virtual communities because group-CMC discussions cannot possibly meet his definition. In Weinreichs view, anyone with even a basic knowledge of sociology understands that information exchange in no way constitutes a community.Q. The primary purpose of the passage is to

On May 5th, 1997, the European edition of Business Tech Magazine led with Hoffman’s cover story "Internet Communities: How Theyre Shaping Electronic Commerce". This cover story highlights the extent to which the term virtual community has become almost synonymous with various forms of group-CMC (computer-mediated communication), including email-list forums, chat-systems such as IRC, web-based discussion areas and UseNet news-groups. There was no debate in the Business Tech Magazine article as to whether the group-CMC discussions are really communities, rather how the community, as opposed to content, can be used to encourage people to return to a particular part of cyberspace for commercial gain. In a similar vein, Simpson and Armstrong in "Internet Gain" argue that ignoring virtual communities would be a great loss of a marketing tool for businesses. They define virtual communities as computer-mediated space where there is an integration of content and communication with an emphasis on member-generated content. Not all virtual community commentators agree with the Spartan position taken by Hoffman. Rheingold, one of the prime popularizers of the term virtual community, provides us with a more emotive definition in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. According to Rheingold, "virtual communities are social aggregations that emerge from the Net when enough people carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficient human feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace". Rheingolds definition is extremely popular and has been quoted in many discussions about virtual communities. As discussed below, for social scientists, particularly sociologists, Rheingolds definition raises many issues, especially concerning the notion of community. This is because Rheingold argues via a variety of analogies from the real world such as homesteading that virtual communities are indeed new forms of "community". In fact, Rheingold implies that virtual communities are actually "a kind of ultimate flowering of a community". Moreover, Rheingold maintains that whenever computer-mediated communications technology becomes available; people inevitably create communities with it. Rheingold can thus be labeled as a technological determinist as he holds that there is a predictable relationship between technology and peoples behavior. The debate over the validity of Rheingolds position has raised doubts about the existence of virtual communities and the appropriate use of the term. Weinreich claims that the idea of virtual communities must be wrong because the community is a collective of kinship networks that share a common geographic region, a common history, and a shared value system, usually rooted in a common religion. In other words, Weinreich rejects the existence of virtual communities because group-CMC discussions cannot possibly meet his definition. In Weinreichs view, anyone with even a basic knowledge of sociology understands that information exchange in no way constitutes a community.Q.According to Simpson and Armstrong, virtual communities

Direction: Read the following Passage and Answer the following Question.“Strange Bedfellows!” lamented the title of a recent letter to Museum News, in which a certain Harriet Sherman excoriated the National Gallery of Art in Washington for its handling of tickets to the much-ballyhooed “Van Gogh’s van Goghs” exhibit. A huge proportion of the 200,000 free tickets were snatched up by the opportunists in the dead of winter, who then scalped those tickets at $85 apiece to less hardy connoiseurs.Yet, Sherman’s bedfellows are far from strange. Art, despite its religious and magical origins, very soon became a commercial venture. From bourgeois patrons funding art they barely understood in order to share their protegee’s prestige, to museum curators stage-managing the cult of artists in order to enhance the market value of museum holdings, entrepreneurs have found validation and profit in big-name art. Speculators, thieves, and promoters long ago created and fed a market where cultural icons could be traded like commodities.This trend toward commodification of high-brow art took an ominous, if predictable, turn in the 1980s during the Japanese “bubble economy.” At a time when Japanese share prices more than doubled, individual tycoons and industrial giants alike invested record amounts in some of the West’s greatest masterpieces. Ryoei Saito, for example, purchased van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet for a record-breaking $82.5 million. The work, then on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, suddenly vanished from the public domain. Later learning that he owed the Japanese government $24 million in taxes, Saito remarked that he would have the paining cremated with him to spare his heirs the inheritance tax. This statement, which he later dismissed as a joke, alarmed and enraged many. A representative of the Van Gogh museum, conceding that he had no legal redress, made an ethical appeal to Mr. Saito, asserting, “a work of art remains the possession of the world at large.”Ethical appeals notwithstanding, great art will increasingly devolve into big business. Firstly, great art can only be certified by its market value. Moreover, the “world at large” hasn’t the means of acquisition. Only one museum currently has the funding to contend for the best pieces–the J. Paul Getty Museum, founded by the billionaire oilman. The art may disappear into private hands, but its transfer will disseminate once static fortunes into the hands of various investors, collectors, and occasionally the artist.Q.It can be inferred from the passage that Harriet Sherman would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements regarding admission to museum exhibits?

Top Courses for GMATView all

Top Courses for GMAT

Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?
Question Description
Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? for GMAT 2024 is part of GMAT preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the GMAT exam syllabus. Information about Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for GMAT 2024 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?.
Solutions for Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? in English & in Hindi are available as part of our courses for GMAT. Download more important topics, notes, lectures and mock test series for GMAT Exam by signing up for free.
Here you can find the meaning of Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? defined & explained in the simplest way possible. Besides giving the explanation of Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer?, a detailed solution for Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? has been provided alongside types of Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? theory, EduRev gives you an ample number of questions to practice Any announcement authorized by the head of the department is important. However, announcements are sometimes issued, without authorization, by people other than the head of the department, so some announcements will inevitably turn out not to be important.The reasoning is flawed because the argumenta)does not specify exactly which communications are to be classified as announcementsb)overlooks the possibility that people other than the head of the department have the authority to authorize announcementsc)leaves open the possibility that the head of the department never, in fact, authorizes any announcementsd)assumes without warrant that just because satisfying a given condition is enough to ensure an announcements importance, satisfying that condition is necessary for its importancee)fails to distinguish between the importance of the position someone holds and the importance of what that person may actually be announcing on a particular occasionCorrect answer is option 'D'. Can you explain this answer? tests, examples and also practice GMAT tests.
Explore Courses for GMAT exam

Top Courses for GMAT

Explore Courses

Suggested Free Tests

Signup for Free!
Signup to see your scores go up within 7 days! Learn & Practice with 1000+ FREE Notes, Videos & Tests.
10M+ students study on EduRev
Get App
© EduRev
Education Revolution
Signup to see your scores go up within 7 days!
Access 1000+ FREE Docs, Videos and Tests
Takes less than 10 seconds to signup