Скачать или смотреть Master CR Inference Questions - A 6-hour workshop

0:00 - About me, my approach, my services
8:24 - Where does your problem in CR lie?
13:55 - Question set 1
1:33:48 - Question set 2
2:11:54 - Takeaways of students from Part 1 of the Workshop
2:15:35 - Question set 2 continues
2:29:48 - Question set 3
3:28:37 - Question set 4
4:01:15 - Question set 5
4:28:31 - Question 6
5:08:48 - Question 7
5:17:40 - Question set 8
5:53:16 - Question 9
6:38:10 - Takeaways and General Questions from the Audience

Question sets 1-3 pertain to the following passage:

The number of patents granted to inventors by the United States Patent Office dropped from 56000 in 1971 to 45000 in 1978. Spending on research and development, which peaked at 3 percent of the gross national product (GNP) in 1964, was only 2.2 percent of the GNP in 1978. During this period, when United States percentage was steadily decreasing, West Germany and Japan increased the percentage of their GNP’s spent on research and development to 3.2 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively.

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Question sets 4-6 pertain to the following passage:

Electric utilities pay less for low-quality coal per ton delivered than for high-quality coal. Yet more low-quality coal than high-quality coal must be burned to generate the same amount of electricity. Moreover, per ton of coal burned, low-quality coal generates more ash than does high-quality coal, and the disposal of ash is becoming more and more expensive.

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Question sets 7-8 pertain to the following passage:

One analyst predicts that Hong Kong can retain its capitalist ways after it becomes part of mainland China in 1997 as long as a capitalist Hong Kong is useful to China; that a capitalist Hong Kong will be useful to China as long as Hong Kong is prosperous; and that Hong Kong will remain prosperous as long as it retains its capitalist ways.

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Question 9:

Harvester-ant colonies live for fifteen to twenty years, though individual worker ants live only a year. The way a colony behaves changes steadily in a predictable pattern as the colony grows older and larger. For the first few years, the foragers behave quite aggressively, searching out and vigorously defending new food sources, but once a colony has reached a certain size, its foragers become considerably less aggressive.