hard · GRE Verbal

The analyst's reasoning is most vulnerable to the criticism that it’s does which of the following?

1. It assumes that the high ratings of existing audiobooks are caused by their audio format, when instead publishers may choose to produce audiobooks only for novels already expected to be well received.
2. It fails to consider seriously that at least some listeners may simply prefer reading text-only novels over listening to the audiobook versions for reasons unrelated to writing quality.
3. It leans on the platform-wide average listener ratings without ever stating how many individual listeners actually rated each one of the existing audiobooks, so those averages may rest on thin data.
4. It overlooks the real possibility that producing a much larger batch of additional audiobooks will end up costing the platform substantially more money per title than its own managers currently seem to expect.
5. It quietly presumes that every single novel already on the platform is of roughly equal literary merit right from the very outset, well before any decision about the audiobook format for that novel has been made.

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