Information and IdeasVery hardInference about when a return arrives
Information and Ideas practice question
Streaming services report that a film's audience roughly halves after its first week, whatever its reviews. Films with strong reviews, however, are far more likely than others to be watched again months and years later. A studio weighing how much to spend on a film's quality, as opposed to its marketing, should therefore ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. expect the return on quality to arrive over a long period rather than in the first week.Correct
- B. spend nothing on quality, since the first-week drop is the same either way.
- C. conclude that reviews have no effect on how a film is watched.
- D. delay each film's release until reviews have been published.
Answer: A. expect the return on quality to arrive over a long period rather than in the first week.
Quality doesn't change the first-week pattern, but it drives viewing months later. So quality pays off slowly.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. spend nothing on quality, since the first-week drop is the same either way.
- The second sentence shows quality DOES pay, just later.
- C. conclude that reviews have no effect on how a film is watched.
- Reviews strongly affect later viewing, per the text.
- D. delay each film's release until reviews have been published.
- Nothing in the text concerns release timing.
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