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Q3 FACTS INFERENCE AND JUDGEMENT

Directions for questions: Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following.

- Facts which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘F’)

- Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘I’)

- Judgments, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects situations and occurences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘J’)

Select the answer option that best describes the set of statements.
Question

1. We should not be hopelessly addicted to an erroneous belief that corruption in India is caused by the crookedness of Indians.

2. The truth is that we have more red tape - we take eighty-nine days to start a small business, Australians take two.

3. Red tape leads to corruption and distorts a person's character.

4. Every red tape procedure is a point of contact with an official, and such


contacts have the potential to become opportunities for money to change hands

Solution

The correct option is B JIJF
Solution: Correct Answer Option: (c)Statement (2) is an inference because it draws a valid conclusion from a fact. Statements (1) and (3) are judgments because they express opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons. Looking at the answer choices, only option (c) seems to follow this pattern

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