Main conclusion when facing two different group’s opinion

[MohamedM501]

Dear Experts,


I face problem to determine the main conclusion in following case.

Group 1: unprofessional people (such as citizens, audience..etc) who have a certain view toward a problem and they reach their conclusion.

Then the prompt have other contradictory view

Group 2: professional people (such as scientists, experts....etc) who have a certain DIFFERENT view toward a problem and they reach their conclusion.

the prompt is just purely two view of two different groups as above. i.e.the conclusion of the author is unclear. The author does not say ' it is counter productive' or 'it is wrong'.

My question is : do we consider the MAIN Conclusion is the conclusion of professional group??? I have searched for my question I face in Manhattan CR book but no conclusive answer found.

Can you clarify please??

Thanks in advance

[RonPurewal]

what is the question actually asking you to do?

if it's a boldface question ("what role is played by each statement?") and there are actually ANSWER CHOICES THAT SAY "the argument's main conclusion", then "the argument" is just the point of view of whoever is WRITING/NARRATING the argument (...and so "the main conclusion of the argument" is just THAT person's conclusion).

if the problem doesn't actually USE the phrase "main conclusion", then, this whole notion is irrelevant... and you just need to do whatever the directions say.

[MohamedM501]

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[RonPurewal]

Dear Ron,

Thanks for your response. You are right it is BF question but there is no author's voice as you suggested.

^^ if the author is saying things, then the author has a point of view.

there are only 2 ways in which a passage could completely lack an "author's point of view".

1/ there's no author's POV if the entire passage is literally a dialogue between participants, like this:
"Edwin: 'xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx'
Lucy: 'xxxx xxx xxx xxx' "

2/ there's no author's POV if the entire passage consists solely of FACTS (...as is sometimes the case for "you draw a conclusion" problems).

...otherwise, the author ALWAYS has a point of view.

[RonPurewal]

we can't discuss a problem without an original source; please cite the original source. i had to remove the problem from your last post, because no source was provided.

if the problem is from a source that's disallowed here, then, of course, we can't discuss it.
also, of course you can't change just a few words of the OG problem (leaving the functional language of the problem exactly the same!), and then present the slightly modified version as "your new version".
please familiarize yourself with the forum rules; thank you.

(if your question is inspired by an OG problem, then, if it's a sufficiently important or general issue, you should be able to find the same issue in one of the free GMAT PREP problems.
if you can't—in other words, if the "issue" literally just shows up in one problem and that's it—then, it just isn't important enough to worry about.)