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Q18

by nickek Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:18 am

I ultimately chose C over E, but I am having trouble seeing the points of inference. Could someone give me a brief sketch please?
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Re: Q18

by maryadkins Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:17 pm

Both authors believe that access to new ideas is constrained recently by market forces as evident from the following lines:

Passage A, 10-12: "Unfortunately, the market process and values governing commodity exchange are ill suited to the cultivation and management of new ideas," and lines 20-21 "...buy research and bury its products, hiding knowledge useful to society..."

Passage B, lines 32-33: "once...a public good...available to society as a whole..."; lines 38-41: "today, however...what was previously seen as a public good is being transformed into a market commodity"; lines 61-65: "It is entitled to seek a return on its investment...by keeping it for its own exclusive use."
 
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Re: Q18

by shirleyx Mon Aug 24, 2015 6:06 pm

let me try to "prove" why the remainder choices are wrong:

(A) nowhere in the passages are we told that there is an "enormous increase" in scientific knowledge.... there probably is, but that would be bringing in outside knowledge and a lot of assumptions

(B) this is tricky (IMO) because its unsupported and too random, so its hard to eliminate right away, but again, we don't about "desire to ... receive credit"

(D) "moral reservations" and are something new.. wrong

(E) there is talk about government funding, but it is not given as a cause for anything... maybe it was a cause but we don't know based on what we're told in the passages.
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