Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each…
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Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:
• Facts (F), which deal with the pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification.
• Inferences (I), which are conclusions drawn about unknown, on the basis of the known.
• Judgments (J), which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future.
Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements:
(A) Government guarantees at the same time as buying hundreds of millions of rupees-worth of bad loans from Dalaal Street is difficult politics, to say the least.
(B) Subject matters were presented simultaneously with audio-visual stimulus and were instructed to decide whether these stimuli referred to the same object or not. Thus, we demonstrate how brain activation for audiovisual integration depends on the verbal content of the stimuli, even when stimulus and task processing differences are controlled.
(C) This instructor will never pass more than 10 people in a Mathematics class. The last four semesters the instructor taught modern mathematics; no more than 10 people passed the class.
(D) In the words of the writer "We're trying to develop machines that expose intelligence by transforming sound into text that carries meaning, which is a very complicated problem we're trying to solve. ... We have been solving different aspects of the problem, but it's not a simple problem."
- A.
JIIF
- B.
FFIJ
- C.
FFFF
- D.
JJII
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Correct answer: A
Answer: J I I F (Judgment, Inference, Inference, Fact)
First statement: Judgment — it expresses an evaluative opinion about politics ("difficult politics"), which implies approval/disapproval rather than reporting a verifiable fact.
Second statement: Inference — it draws a conclusion from experimental observations (that brain activation for audiovisual integration depends on verbal content), so it is a conclusion based on known data.
Third statement: Inference — it generalizes from past semesters (observations) to a prediction about future classes ("will never pass more than 10 people"), which is an inductive inference.
Fourth statement: Fact — it reports what the writer said about the technical problem and progress; this is a factual report of a quoted statement and is open to verification.