easy · GMAT Verbal
An argument claims that using a laptop for schoolwork is essentially like using a textbook, since both are tools for storing and retrieving information. Because students have used textbooks for centuries without significant distraction, the argument concludes, laptops will not be a source of distraction in the classroom.
Which of the following is a relevant difference that weakens this analogy?
- Laptops provide access to a wide range of non-educational entertainment and communication platforms that textbooks do not.
- Textbooks are frequently bulkier and considerably heavier to haul around a campus than the slim, lightweight modern laptops that students carry today.
- Laptops depend on a charged battery or a nearby outlet to run, whereas a printed textbook needs no power at all.
- A sizable share of students still say they would much rather take their class notes by hand than type them on a laptop keyboard.
- Not one single student anywhere has ever once been even momentarily distracted while reading a textbook in class.
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