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ID: GMAT-VR-CR-027
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning (CR)
Topic: Weaken
Difficulty level: Hard

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The Kesler Institute employs about 600 people. In each of the years before it introduced a stipend for staff who attend workshops run by outside bodies, about 22 percent of its staff left within the year. In the year just ended, two years after the stipend was introduced, the figure was 13 percent. The Institute's board concludes that the stipend is what has kept the staff who stayed, and proposes doubling it.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the board's conclusion about why those staff stayed?

AOnly about a third of the Institute's staff have ever claimed the stipend.

BSome staff who claimed the stipend and attended a workshop left the Institute within the following year.

CThe stipend costs the Institute more per member of staff retained than recruiting and training a replacement would cost.

DAt institutes comparable to Kesler, where no such stipend is paid, staff leave at about the rate that prevailed at Kesler before the stipend was introduced.

ETwo years ago the Institute stopped filling its short-term project posts, which about a quarter of its staff held and which accounted for most of its departures.

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