In each of the following questions, two statements numbered I and II are…
2023
In each of the following questions, two statements numbered I and II are given. There may be cause and effect relationship between the two statements. These two statements may be the effect of the same cause or independent causes. These statements may be independent causes without having any relationship. Read both the statements in each question and mark your answer as
Statements:
I. The employees of the biggest bank in the country have given an indefinite strike call starting from third of the next month.
II. The employees of the Central Government have withdrawn their week long demonstrations.
- A.
Statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect
- B.
Statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect
- C.
Both the statements I and II are independent causes
- D.
Both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes
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Correct answer: D
Concept: In cause-and-effect reasoning, classify each statement as an originating cause or as an effect (an outcome that follows from some earlier cause). Two statements can be: one causing the other, both being causes in their own right, or both being effects that each follow from their own separate, unstated cause with no link between the two.
Application: Statement I reports that bank employees have given a strike call, and Statement II reports that Central Government employees have withdrawn their protest. Neither statement claims or implies that one event produced the other - they involve two unconnected groups (a bank's workforce and central government employees) with no shared trigger mentioned. A strike call and a decision to end a protest are themselves actions taken in response to something else - they read as outcomes, not as the originating causes. So both statements are effects, each following from its own separate cause specific to that group, and nothing ties the bank workers' trigger to the government employees' trigger.
Cross-check: For one statement to be the cause of the other, the passage would need to show the bank strike call producing the government's withdrawal of protest (or the reverse) - no such link is stated. For both statements to be causes in their own right (rather than effects), they would have to describe the originating grievance or decision itself, not the culminating strike call/withdrawal action - but both statements describe the culminating action, which is the marker of an effect, not a cause.
Both statements are effects of independent causes.