PrepTest 146

Incorrect. This answer doesn't connect the perspective to how useful the advice is, so it doesn't connect the premises to the conclusion.

Incorrect. What people aspire to be doesn't reflect what they are (or even what they will be). This answer still doesn't connect perspective to use.

Incorrect. While this might mean that a CEO could understand the perspective of a lower-level manager, it doesn't help with the lower-level managers (who make up the majority of managers) lacking the perspective of the CEO.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Argument

Valid or Flawed:
Flawed

Question Type:
Strengthen with Sufficient Premise

Stimulus Summary:
Management books are written for CEOs, but most managers aren't CEOs, so the books are of limited use.

Answer Anticipation:
The conclusion brings in a wholly new concept—a book being of "limited use." The stimulus only talks about perspectives, not use. Therefore, to justify the conclusion, the correct answer will need to connect the mismatch in perspective (CEO vs. other manager) to the advice being of limited use:

If advice isn't from the same perspective as the person receiving the advice, then that advice is of limited use.

Answer Explanation:
This answer connects the perspective mismatch to the usefulness of the advice. If most management advice books are written from the perspective of the CEO, and most managers are not CEOs, then this answer ensures that these books are of limited use for most managers.

Key Takeaway:
Strengthen with Sufficient Premise questions frequently introduce new terms or concepts in the conclusion, and these terms need to be connected to an idea from the premises in the correct answer. Here, usefulness was a new concept, so the correct answer needed to include it and connect it to the mismatched perspective raised in the premise.

Incorrect. Preferences and what managers "think" will be useful doesn't determine what is actually useful.