PrepTest 127, Section 2, Question 5
Chinh: Television producers should not pay attention to(65 more words not shown)
According to Lana, Chinh's argument(5 more words not shown)
- Ais(1 more words not shown)
- Brelies on a(10 more words not shown)
- Cinfers from the(14 more words not shown)
- Dfails to consider(13 more words not shown)
- Eoffers a faulty(1 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Pay no attention to what viewers want? That sounds strong. A producer whose show attracts no audience may get poor ratings and lose the opportunity to keep making it. That doesn't mean every creative decision must cater to the public. There is room between complete disregard and giving viewers control over everything.
Chinh supports that recommendation by pointing to great painters. But are the two jobs similar in the relevant way? A painter might be pursuing personal artistic goals, while a television producer may be trying to make a show succeed with an audience. The fact that one can ignore the public doesn't automatically show that the other should.
Lana makes that distinction explicit: television is expressly for viewers. She compares a producer to a CEO developing a product for consumers. On her account, considering the audience is part of the purpose of the activity.
What we’re looking for
The question asks for Lana's objection to Chinh's reasoning. She is challenging the comparison between painters and producers. She doesn't need to deny the claim about great painters; she can accept it and still reject using it to tell television producers what to do.
Working the answers
- A
A circular argument might say producers should ignore viewers because ignoring viewers is what producers should do. That would simply repeat the claim as its own support. Chinh instead offers a separate comparison with painters, and Lana challenges that comparison.
- B
There is no sample of consumers here. Chinh doesn't survey a small group and use it to infer what consumers generally prefer. The disagreement concerns whether painters provide a useful model for producers.
- C
Try to identify the effect and the action this answer describes. Even if we call paying attention to viewers an action, Chinh doesn't point to an outcome of that action and infer that the outcome was intended. That proposed pattern isn't present in the argument.
- D
Lana doesn't claim painters actually try to please museum visitors. That would dispute Chinh's factual premise. Instead, she explains why the premise about painters doesn't justify the recommendation about television producers. Accepting a fact doesn't require accepting every comparison built from it.
- ECorrect
Lana says Chinh's analogy is faulty. Television is for the viewing public, so she thinks a producer resembles a CEO who must consider consumers more than a painter who disregards an audience. The alleged behavior of painters therefore doesn't establish how television producers should make decisions.
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