I'm having a little trouble explaining to myself why certain answers are incorrect- if someone can offer me some pointers that would be great! Here is what I've come up with:
A: does not address the whole conclusion
B: "believing" to be informed is not the same as actually being informed
C: does not link the premise to the conclusion
E: deals with the premises only
Thanks!
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Re: Q2 - Although 90 percent of the population
I like your take on (C) and (E). On your (A) and (B) explanations I was a bit less sure what you were getting at, so let me give you my thinking:
(A) isn't a mistake the argument makes, because it isn't what the argument is setting out to prove. The argument is about people NOT being able to make good choices and why. It's not about what people who CAN make good choices are like.
(B) tries to confuse you by making the conclusion about what is required for good policy to be made. But the conclusion is really just about what those 80% of people are capable of, not about what society is capable of in general.
(C) links the premise (understanding DNA) to the conclusion (being able to make good decisions) and in doing so nails the assumption. Bingo!
Hope this helps!
(A) isn't a mistake the argument makes, because it isn't what the argument is setting out to prove. The argument is about people NOT being able to make good choices and why. It's not about what people who CAN make good choices are like.
(B) tries to confuse you by making the conclusion about what is required for good policy to be made. But the conclusion is really just about what those 80% of people are capable of, not about what society is capable of in general.
(C) links the premise (understanding DNA) to the conclusion (being able to make good decisions) and in doing so nails the assumption. Bingo!
Hope this helps!
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Re: Q2 - Although 90 percent of the population
Premise: Only 20 percent of the population knows about DNA to understand a news story about DNA
Conclusion: At least 80 percent of the population does not know enough about medical concepts to make well in-formed personal medical choices or to make good public policy decisions about health care.
This is a huge term shift and this will be where the flaw is. The author erroneously equates two characteristics
Flaw: Takes for granted that knowing about DNA is necessary to knowing about medical concepts to make well informed personal medical choices and or to make good public policy decisions about health care.
(A) Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
(B)Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
(C) Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
(D) Bingo
(E)Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
Conclusion: At least 80 percent of the population does not know enough about medical concepts to make well in-formed personal medical choices or to make good public policy decisions about health care.
This is a huge term shift and this will be where the flaw is. The author erroneously equates two characteristics
Flaw: Takes for granted that knowing about DNA is necessary to knowing about medical concepts to make well informed personal medical choices and or to make good public policy decisions about health care.
(A) Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
(B)Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
(C) Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
(D) Bingo
(E)Descriptively accurate, but this is not the flaw.
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