Q4

[JoyC484]

Can anyone explain the differences between A, B and E?

[ohthatpatrick]

Sure, let me do a quick walk-through.

Since it's an Analogy question, I'm starting by figuring out what salient qualities I need to extract from the passage.

They want me to describe "the situation facing Marsalis", so what is the situation facing Marsalis, in terms of its big picture, generalizable features?

I'd say we're probably looking for something that sounds like an intent to do good that ultimately backfires.

Marsalis was TRYING to help boost the jazz industry, by honoring the past masters.

But he was so successful at hyping up the old school recordings that record labels stopped putting money into developing new talent.

So Marsalis' attempt to help jazz ultimately ended up hurting it.

first pass guess: you attempted to help something, but that ultimately hurt it

(A) This isn't reflexive. It's not saying "In trying to make X better, I ultimately made X worse". It's just saying "We achieved one goal, but it had a different unintended consequence".

In order for the first half of (A) to match up with what we're looking for, it would say "A council's successful plan to slow the pace of housing development ... ultimately led to a FASTER pace of housing development".

(B) This looks good. It's not quite the "I tried to help X but it backfired and hurt X", but it has more specific tie-in's like, "We tried to sound like the old school stuff. It worked, and now all the money is going to the old school stuff, not us."

(C) The situation here is "Something that people think is inferior to X was promoted, so support of X increased". It's hard to match that up with the jazz story we were told.

(D) The older company is displaced and challenged by the younger companies? That doesn't match our jazz story at all.

(E) This literally SAYS the word backfire, which makes me kinda nervous.
"campaign to save endangered" = "Marsalis promoting old jazz"
"backfires" = "Record companies put $$ into old jazz, not new jazz"
"a ban on fishing in those lakes" = " ? ? ? ? "
"a predatory fish to thrive" = "the recording companies?"
"diminish stocks of endangered species" = "diminish old jazz?"

A couple parts of that worked, but the others didn't. There's no ban of fishing in the jazz story. There are a couple other loose parts.

It seems that (B) is right, since we can match up
"well known entity pushing a new hybrid marketed to taste like older traditional varieties" = Marsalis and his retro ideology, bringing back the sounds of old masters.

"as a result (backfire), sales of traditional go up and hybrid sales decline" = Marsalis got the old masters to be so popular that now the money in the jazz industry has funneled away from him and towards the old recordings.

Hope this helps.

[JoyC484]

Sure, let me do a quick walk-through.

Since it's an Analogy question, I'm starting by figuring out what salient qualities I need to extract from the passage.

They want me to describe "the situation facing Marsalis", so what is the situation facing Marsalis, in terms of its big picture, generalizable features?

I'd say we're probably looking for something that sounds like an intent to do good that ultimately backfires.

Marsalis was TRYING to help boost the jazz industry, by honoring the past masters.

But he was so successful at hyping up the old school recordings that record labels stopped putting money into developing new talent.

So Marsalis' attempt to help jazz ultimately ended up hurting it.

first pass guess: you attempted to help something, but that ultimately hurt it

(A) This isn't reflexive. It's not saying "In trying to make X better, I ultimately made X worse". It's just saying "We achieved one goal, but it had a different unintended consequence".

In order for the first half of (A) to match up with what we're looking for, it would say "A council's successful plan to slow the pace of housing development ... ultimately led to a FASTER pace of housing development".

(B) This looks good. It's not quite the "I tried to help X but it backfired and hurt X", but it has more specific tie-in's like, "We tried to sound like the old school stuff. It worked, and now all the money is going to the old school stuff, not us."

(C) The situation here is "Something that people think is inferior to X was promoted, so support of X increased". It's hard to match that up with the jazz story we were told.

(D) The older company is displaced and challenged by the younger companies? That doesn't match our jazz story at all.

(E) This literally SAYS the word backfire, which makes me kinda nervous.
"campaign to save endangered" = "Marsalis promoting old jazz"
"backfires" = "Record companies put $$ into old jazz, not new jazz"
"a ban on fishing in those lakes" = " ? ? ? ? "
"a predatory fish to thrive" = "the recording companies?"
"diminish stocks of endangered species" = "diminish old jazz?"

A couple parts of that worked, but the others didn't. There's no ban of fishing in the jazz story. There are a couple other loose parts.

It seems that (B) is right, since we can match up
"well known entity pushing a new hybrid marketed to taste like older traditional varieties" = Marsalis and his retro ideology, bringing back the sounds of old masters.

"as a result (backfire), sales of traditional go up and hybrid sales decline" = Marsalis got the old masters to be so popular that now the money in the jazz industry has funneled away from him and towards the old recordings.

Hope this helps.

Thank you for helping!

However, I kind of still not very sure with the "ban" in E. Is the ban supposed to be part of the campaign? If so, I think we can have "ban on fishing"="put emphasis on old masters", both of which are methods Marsalis of the campaign use to reach their goals.