Information and IdeasHardInference from a puzzling result
Information and Ideas practice question
A hotel put a card in each room asking guests to reuse their towels 'to help the environment'. Reuse rose slightly. A second card, saying that 'most guests in this room reuse their towels', raised reuse far more. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. guests were influenced more by what other guests did than by the environmental appeal.Correct
- B. guests do not care about the environment.
- C. the second card was larger.
- D. most guests never read the cards.
Answer: A. guests were influenced more by what other guests did than by the environmental appeal.
The social message outperformed the environmental one.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. guests do not care about the environment.
- The first card did raise reuse slightly.
- C. the second card was larger.
- Size isn't mentioned; the wording changed.
- D. most guests never read the cards.
- Reuse changed with the wording, so guests read them.
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