Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT101 S2 Q2 Explanation

All people prefer colors that they

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Stimulus

All people prefer colors that they can distinguish easily to colors that they have difficulty distinguishing. Infants can easily distinguish bright colors but, unlike adults, have difficulty distinguishing subtle shades. A brightly colored toy for infants in subtle shades at the same price.

What this question is testing

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Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
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Which one of the following conclusions is most strongly supported by the information

Answer choices

  1. Out of Scope: primary / secondary3% picked this

    Infants prefer bright primary colors to bright

    We have no means to judge this comparison since the information never distinguished between primary and secondary colors.

  2. Too Strong: the most important8% picked this

    Color is the most important factor in determining which toys an infant will prefer

    This is way too strong a claim to derive. All we can prove from this paragraph is that "color could be a factor in determining which toys an infant prefers".

  3. Unsupported: equal preference5% picked this

    Individual infants do not have strong preferences for one particular bright color over

    All we know is that infants prefer bright to subtle. We don't know whether they prefer primary to secondary, or whether they prefer Bright Color 1 to Bright Color 2.

  4. Correct81% picked this

    The sales of toys for infants reflect the preferences of infants in at

    Why this is right

    We know that "infants prefer bright colors" and we know "a brightly colored toy sells better than an otherwise identical one in a more subtle shade", so we can say there is at least one sense (bright is better than subtle) in which sales of toys (bright ones sells better than subtle ones) reflect infants' preferences (infants prefer bright to subtle).

    Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  5. Causal Speculation3% picked this

    Toy makers study infants to determine what colors the infants can

    This type of trap answer is just inventing a backstory to explain the presented facts. That's not our job (unless every answer is worse that this). We don't have any support for whether any toy makers are engaged in studying infants. If they had actually studied infants and learned that infants prefer bright colors, then why would they have even manufactured the subtle-shade version of their toy?

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