Q20 - A sales person who makes

[alexdownie7]

I am not sure why E is a better answer than C. Any help would be appreciated.

[ohthatpatrick]

Let's put up a complete explanation.

Question type: Logical Completion
(Two flavors -- Inference "Therefore _____" or Strengthen "Because _______")

This one doesn't have any key words, but it will turn out that we need to essentially put in a Strengthening idea.

More than anything, because this argument is making an analogy, I would think of this question as asking us to "Complete the Analogy".

In the world of sales:
Salesperson doesn't change desires of customer. Customer comes in with pre-existing desires. Salesperson just convinces the customer that product X will satisfy the customer's desires.

In the world of politics:
Campaigner doesn't change desires of voter. Voter comes in with pre-existing desires (for policies). Campaigner just tries to .... convince the voter that politician X will satisfy the voter's desires (for policies)

We need the closest match for
"take what we know the voter wants, and convince the voter that politician X is the best match for those wants"

(A) OPPONENTS of this politician? That would be like discussing OTHER products, which we never did.

(B) Same as (A). We never talked about other products, so we shouldn't talk about other politicians.

(C) Tell the voter that his/her desires are inferior to those of politician X? That doesn't match. We need to take the voter's desires and say, "Politician X will satisfy them".

(D) Person of "outstanding character" has no match in the first half of the analogy. We never discussed the "outstanding quality" of the product, just the idea that the product will satisfy the customer's desires.

(E) This is closest we're gonna get, I guess. We wanted "convince the voter that Politican X will satisfy the voter's desires (for putting certain policies in place)". Here we get a stronger match than any other answer choice.

Thus, (E) is the correct answer.

Hope this helps.

[emil.brignola]

I dont see where you got inferior from in answer choice C. Could you clarify why C is wrong.

[erikwoodward10]

I dont see where you got inferior from in answer choice C. Could you clarify why C is wrong.

C says that we are “convincing the voter” to pick something else, something that is "preferable" to his opinion. Thus his opinion is inferior. That is not the analogy. The analogy is to bring a product to the preferences of the voter. That is described in E.