问一道OG12-123 CR 先谢谢大家了

vansonkated

先上题：

Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a
company has previously provided for itself. Since a company’s chief objective is to realize the highest
possible year-end profits, any product or service that can be obtained from an independent supplier for less
than it would cost the company to provide the product or service on its own should be outsourced.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?

(A) If a company decides to use independent suppliers for a product, it can generally
exploit the vigorous competition arising among several firms that are interested in supplying
that product.

(B) Successful outsourcing requires a company to provide its suppliers with information about its
products and plans that can fall into the hands of its competitors and give them a business
advantage.

(C) Certain tasks, such as processing a company’s payroll, are commonly outsourced, whereas
others, such as handling the company’s core business, are not.

(D) For a company to provide a product or service for itself as efficiently as an independent supplier
can provide it, the managers involved need to be as expert in the area of that product or service
as the people in charge of that product or service at an independent supplier are.

(E) When a company decides to use an independent supplier for a product or service, the independent
supplier sometimes hires members of the company’s staff who formerly made the product
or provided the service that the independent supplier now supplies.

答案B

我选的答案是C
请大家看看我的分析，帮我看看我哪错了
分析：原文首先介绍外包的概念，然后说因为公司的主要目标是实现利润最大化，所以任何产品或者服务（能从一个单独的供应商以比公司生产更低的生产成本获得）应该被外包。

问那一个最能削弱论据，首先我想问，argument论据到底是什么？我认为是企业外包的原因，即可以以更低的成本从供应商那获得本应该自己生产的产品或服务.
而B选项，是如何削弱这个论据的？？？B选项只是说可能提供给供应商的信息会被竞争者利用，导致导致商机的流失。而论据是从成本的角度来看，应属于无关的选项
C说，某些任务像处理工资单经常被外包，然而核心企业内容从未被外包，说明被外包的服务通常成本非常小，而大成本的部分却不被外包，因此从成本的角度上削弱了上述论据

刚做第一遍OG，很多还没有掌握，请大家谅解。希望大家的帮助，帮我纠正思维上的错误，早日步入正轨，感谢大家了

haileywang

前提：外包是企业将自己以前能生产的东西给别人做（注意没有提到外包后是否划算）
目的：realize the highest possible year-end profits
结论：只要存在价格差（注意不是大成本小成本）的东西都可以外包

因为是削弱结论，不能把结论中的某些属性——价格差——强加到选项中，比如C，并未提到payroll或者core business外包与否是否存在价格差，也无关于最终的profit。

JoshwuS

要分清前提和结论，楼主认为是论据的东西其实是结论的一部分，前提只有两个：
（1）Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier a product or service that a
company has previously provided for itself
（2）a company’s chief objective is to realize the highest possible year-end profits
这两个前提都没有提到成本，你把常识引入了推理过程中，自然而然地觉得某些东西是论据。“argument论据到底是什么？我认为是企业外包的原因，即可以以更低的成本从供应商那获得本应该自己生产的产品或服务”，题目中并没有把这句话作为论据，这是楼主想象的或者曲解的。
原题的结论是：any product or service that can be obtained from an independent supplier for less
than it would cost the company to provide the product or service on its own should be outsourced。
按照楼主所说，其实你把结论理解成了the company's services should be outsourced. 而把原题的结论理解成了一个论据。
从两个前提推出这个结论本来就很不充分，（P1）外包是把以前自己做的东西交给别人做，（P2）公司的目的是利润最大化
如何推出（C）一切别人可以用更低成本帮自己做到的事情都该外包？实际上这两个前提根本无法推出任何有关外包的价值判断，要推出一件事应不应该做，需要一些有关利弊的前提。B项给出了外包的一个缺点，实际上就反驳了原结论，它根本不需要截断前提和结论之间的关系，因为前提跟结论几乎没有所谓的逻辑关系，原argument本来就是一个很扯的argument.

vansonkated

您讲解的非常透彻，我基本已经了解。但是我总在做题的时候加入我的想象，从而分不清题里面的论据和结论，所以很多题都做错看了答案也不知道自己错在哪。请问这个毛病应该如何改掉，本人马上要考了，很着急～～

dandanapple

该公司外包的条件是：成本低。 要削弱它就要找到其他条件会影响是否外包的决定。而“信息安全”问题，恰恰也是影响外包的一个重要条件

所以，如果不能保证信息安全，则外包的成本再低，也不一定要外包。