Stat & Matic Odd One Out
CAT 2019 Slot 1 · VARC · Hard · Verbal Ability
Five sentences related to a topic are given below in a jumbled order. Four of them form a coherent and unified paragraph. Identify the odd sentence that does not go with the four. Key in the number of the option that you choose.
- 'Stat' signaled something measurable, while 'matic' advertised free labour; but 'tron', above all, indicated control.
- It was a totem of high modernism, the intellectual and cultural mode that decreed no process or phenomenon was too complex to be grasped, managed and optimized.
- Like the heraldic shields of ancient knights, these morphemes were painted onto the names of scientific technologies to proclaim one's history and achievements to friends and enemies alike.
- The historian Robert Proctor at Stanford University calls the suffix '-tron', along with '-matic' and '-stat', embodied symbols.
- To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age.
Answer
2
Explanation
Sentences 4, 3, 1, 5 talk about the technical suffixes/morphemes ('-tron', '-matic', '-stat') as symbols attached to technology. Sentence 2 discusses 'high modernism' in abstract terms, which does not fit into the unified paragraph 4-3-1-5.
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