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ibps-so 2018 · Question 172 of 356

The attitude of the author towards the forecasters he describes may best be described as

  1. Acontemptuous of their competence and of the methods they employ
  2. Bwholly uncritical, treating every forecast as beyond question
  3. Cdespairing of any further improvement in the accuracy of prediction
  4. Dsympathetic to their position and critical rather of the way in which their work is judgedCorrect
  5. Eimpatient with the very practice of publishing a forecast at all

Answer: D. sympathetic to their position and critical rather of the way in which their work is judged

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Source: IBPS SO Prelims Memory Based 2018 (held 29 Dec 2018, Shift 1) - Prepp · memory-based

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