Verbal Reasoning 2: Reasoning

Example 1

Text
Women are under-represented in science, but they are more under-represented in some areas of science than others. In the United States, for example, the proportion of women who have recently obtained a PhD in molecular biology and neuroscience is more than twice as high as in physics and computer sciences (there it is less than 20 percent). In the social sciences and humanities, there are also major differences between disciplines: the share of women among recent PhDs in psychology and art history is more than twice as high as in economics and philosophy (just over 35 percent).

Statement
The percentage of women among recent PhD graduates is higher in technical fields than in social and humanities fields.

Answer
Cannot say. Only a few examples are given, no general statement can be made. Here you have to look carefully at what exactly something is said about and what the numbers are about. Based on the text, the statement seems very logical, but this is not the assignment. The task is to determine whether the statement is definitely true, with certainty not true, or whether more information is needed. In this case, clearly more information is needed.

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