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A study was conducted to ascertain the relative importance that employees in five different countries assigned to five different traits in their Chief Executive Officers. The traits were compassion (C), decisiveness (D), negotiation skills (N), public visibility (P), and vision (V). The level of dissimilarity between two countries is the maximum difference in the ranks allotted by the two countries to any of the five traits. The following table indicates the rank order of the five traits for each country.
CAT/2004
Question . 152
Three of the following four pairs of countries have identical levels of dissimilarity. Which pair is the odd one out?
Explanatory Answer
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(d) Clearly the level of dissimilarity between Malaysia and China is 4 (for N or V)
Level of dissimilarity for China and Thailand is 4 (for V)
Level of dissimilarity for Thailand and Japan is 4 (for D)
But level of dissimilarity for Japan and Malaysia is 3 (for V or N)