Statement: The T.V. programmes, telecast specially for women are packed with a…

2024

Statement: The T.V. programmes, telecast specially for women are packed with a variety of recipes and household hints. A major portion of magazines for women also contains the items mentioned above.

Conclusions: I. Women are not interested in other things.

II. An average woman's primary interest lies in home and specially in the kitchen.

  1. A.

    Only conclusion I follows

  2. B.

    Only conclusion II follows

  3. C.

    Either I or II follows

  4. D.

    Both I and II follow

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Correct answer: B

In Statement-Conclusion reasoning, a conclusion follows only if it is a direct, unavoidable inference from the statement's given facts - it must not add any exclusivity claim or extreme generalisation beyond what is actually stated. An 'either/or' combination applies only when the two conclusions form a genuine complementary pair, not merely because both are drawn from the same statement.

Conclusion I claims women have no interest in 'other things' - the statement only says women's programmes and magazines are packed with recipes and household hints; it never claims this is the ONLY thing they care about, so asserting total exclusivity is an unsupported overgeneralisation, and Conclusion I does not follow. Conclusion II claims an average woman's primary interest lies in home and kitchen - this is a direct, natural inference from the statement's own emphasis: because content aimed at women is dominated by recipes and household hints, that emphasis itself indicates where their primary interest lies, so Conclusion II follows without adding anything beyond the statement.

  • "Only conclusion I follows" fails because Conclusion I itself is an unsupported overgeneralisation - it never survives on its own.

  • "Either I or II follows" misapplies the either/or rule: I and II are not a complementary pair (one about exclusivity of interest, the other about primary interest) - they must each be judged independently, not as alternatives.

  • "Both I and II follow" fails because a "both" combination needs every member to be independently supported, and Conclusion I is not.

So the combination that survives independent scrutiny is "Only Conclusion II follows".

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