Q23 - Health Association: In certain studies

[sumukh09]

Hey

Is B) wrong because B) as the Health Association's conclusion would essentially just repeat the critic's point?

[tommywallach]

Hey Sumukh,

Really great work here. Your explanation for (B) is correct. But just to be a little bit more comprehensive, I'm going to take the whole question apart, just to make sure it's clear for others.

The Health association basically says that people can go veggie without suffering because a few people did it. The critic responds by saying those people wanted to be veggie, and anyway a lot of them didn't go totally veggie.

They disagree about whether ANYBODY can go veggie, and if people really go all the way with it. We're basically asked which answer choice the critic would disagree with, though the question looks a lot more complicated than that!

A) The critic doesn't address the health benefits of going veggie, just the plausibility of people actually doing it.

B) The critic doesn't disagree with this. In fact, as you said Sumukh, this is the critic's whole point. The critic believes that if you're more willing to try going veggie inherently, you're more likely to succeed (in other words, not ANYBODY can suddenly switch). This is the opposite of what we want.

C) The critic would not necessarily disagree with this. We don't know about people outside of the study.

D) The critic doesn't discuss the idea of regret, only whether or not people succeeded in going veggie.

E) This is the correct answer. The critic says that if you took a random person, they would not necessarily succeed in going veggie (they might not be disposed, and they might not succeed in going TOTALLY veggie even if they were).

Let me know if you have any other questions!

-t

[dean.won]

I thought the critic's point was that not ALL can successfully be veggies NOT that nobody can be veggies.

Also, since the critic only said that MANY (some) fail to be successful doesnt it leave room for MOST to be successful (as long as it's not everybody who succeeds)? Therefore, he doesnt neccessarily disagree with E.

Thats why although I liked E at first, that MOST/MANY distinction was what ultimately made me cross it out.

[inesa909]

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone could help classify the question type for this problem.
Thank you

[tommywallach]

Hey Inesa,

This Q doesn't fit very well into any particular category. It's pretty much an identify the disagreement question, paired a bit with a weaken question. Weird!

-t

[JW190]

Hello,

Even with explanations on this site, the ones from the Superprep Book, and other websites, this question still confuses me. Specifically why B is wrong.

It seems to me that the critic would disagree with B. He says that many of those in the study that were already favorably disposed to a vegetarian diet were unsuccessful in their attempts to transition. So it seems he disagrees with a connection between a favorable predisposition and success or else have no opinion on it at all.

The best reason I can find against B would be the fact that it is based on no information from the Health Association. This wasn't something I considered when originally doing this question.

What am I missing? Thanks!

[AshleyT786]

Doesn't the critic disagree with B though? He concedes that the people studied were successful in converting to meatless diets but says that many of them still failed to do so...

I thought B was iffy at best because it wasn't a conclusion you could draw from reading the health association's comments. The health association mentioned nothing about being disposed towards certain diets