Q7 - Rita: No matter how you look at them

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
ID the Disagreement

Stimulus Breakdown:
R: No matter how you look at them, your survey results are misleading. Since ppl lie on this type of survey, your numbers are serious underestimates.
H: If I look at the relative rates, my survey results are probably accurate. even though, yes, ppl lie on this type of survey and yes, the raw numbers are underestimates.

Answer Anticipation:
As we compare claim vs. claim, it looks like Hiro would mainly disagree with 'NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT THEM'. His only disagrement is that if we look at the RELATIVE RATES, then the results are NOT misleading.

Correct Answer:
A

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) Yup, just as we prephrased. Hiro thinks that interpreting the relative rates is probably close to accurate. Rita says "no matter how" you look at them, they're misleading.

(B) They agreed about this.

(C) Neither commented on measures other than surveys.

(D) They agreed about this.

(E) Neither discussed the sample size of the survey.

Takeaway/Pattern: To precisely isolate the source of disagreement, go claim-by-claim through the 1st person's statements and figure out which claim (or, in rare cases, which assumption) the 1st person made that the 2nd person went against. Rita made three claims, and Hiro agree with claim 2 (ppl lie on these surveys) and claim 3 (the numbers are underestimates). So we know he must be disagreeing with "No matter how you look at them" (i.e. "regardless of how you interpret them").

#officialexplanation

[LawrenceR550]

Got tempted by D. While Hiro concedes that his numbers are estimates, he follows up by claiming that they are actually probably close to being accurate (which is a contrast from the numbers being serious underestimates). Seems like that should be common sense. But it's not what they most disagree over. There's an underlying contention, described by A. That's the crux (and technically, what Rita considers to be serious, Hiro might consider relatively insignificant ... Rita is not specifiying by how much).