Question

Determine whether the following reasons are (1) helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response, (2) helpful in focusing perception to elicit an unfavorable response, (3) too vague to focus perception, (4) false or implausible and therefore unable to focus perception, or (5) irrelevant to focusing perception. The information you need is contained in the reasons, so try to visualize or imagine what the work is like from what is said. All of these are paraphrases of testimony given at a hearing in 1985 about a proposal to remove Tilted Arc, an immense abstract sculpture, from a plaza in front of a federal office building.. Tilted Arc looks like a discarded piece of crooked or bent metal; there’s no more meaning in having it in the middle of the plaza than in putting an old bicycle that got run over by a car there.

Answer 1

Tilted Arc looks like a discarded piece of crooked or bent metal; there’s no more meaning in having it in the middle of the plaza than in putting an old bicycle that got run over by a car there.

The above-mentioned reason for the eradication of Tilted Arc from a plaza seems quite helpful. The value addition of the Tilted Arc is nil and is not having any functionality in the plaza. Hence its eradication seems justified. So we can conclude that the given reason for removal of the Tilted Arc is helpful in focusing perception to elicit a favorable response.

Answer: Option 1