Someone who gets sick from eating

Answer choices

1. A

   Opposite5% picked this

   Children are more likely than adults to be given meals composed of foods lacking

   In order for this causal mechanism to happen, the child has to get sick from the food AND think that one of the foods had a really distinctive flavor (and thus develop a food aversion to that flavor). If children's meals are more devoid of distinctive flavors, that goes the opposite of what we want.

   5%
2. B

   Weakens, if anything5% picked this

   Children are less likely than adults to see a connection between their health and the

   In this causal story that's supposed to affect children more than adults, people develop an aversion to a flavor because they got sick from a meal, that meal had this flavor in it, and they see a connection between their sick health and the distinctive flavor of the food they ate. This answer is saying children are less likely to see a connection.

   5%
3. C

   Correct81% picked this

   Children tend to have more acute taste and to become sick more often

   Why this is right

   This accomplishes one of the two things we were looking for. The causal mechanism described is get sick from food + ? aversion to flavor X X most distinctive flavor If kids get sick from food more often than adults do, then this causal explanation will apply more frequently to kids, so we're helping to justify why children are especially likely to develop food aversions.

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

   81%
4. D

   Out of Scope: recover3% picked this

   Children typically recover more slowly than adults do from sickness caused

   This is only about whether or not they get sick and develop an eventual aversion, not how long it takes to recover from the sickness.

   3%
5. E

   Out of Scope: refuse to eat6% picked this

   Children are more likely than are adults to refuse to eat

   If a child refuses to eat a food, then there's no way for this causal sequence to even play out. Once a child (or adult) has a food aversion, they will probably refuse to eat that food, but that food is no longer unfamiliar. This answer is talking about whether they're willing to try a food they've never tried before, so it's really unrelated to the sequence of eating food, getting sick, and then avoiding the strongest flavor that was in that meal.

   6%