Every week, the programming office at an FM radio station reviewed unsolicited letters from listeners who were expres...

burdal on March 23, 2023

Why not A?

Emil-Kunkin on March 23, 2023

Hi, let's look at why the reasoning is flawed. The editor had evidence that people disliked the move segment, and from the evidence that people disliked it, concluded that people must like it.

This is, put gently, completely unsupported. For some reason he decided that people disliking something was evidence that other people like it. This frankly dumb reasoning is captured in B

A isn't really relevant. While they may be bias in who writes in, the bias stated in A would actually support the editors decision. If people are more likely to complain, then that would be a good reason to discount complaint letters.

C simply isn't what the editor did. The editor did recognize that there were ten complaints, but the issue wasn't the discrepancy but rather the decision to fabricate imagined positive reactions.