Logical Reasoning

PT108 · S3 · Q26 Anthropologist: After mapping the complete

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Anthropologist: After mapping the complete dominance hierarchy for a troupe of vervet monkeys by examining their pairwise interaction, we successfully predicted more complex forms of their group behavior by assuming that each monkey had knowledge of the complete hierarchy.

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.

26.

Which one of the following is a point about which the anthropologist and the primatologist are committed to disagreeing?

  1. whether the anthropologist successfully predicted

    Trap

    5% picked this

  2. whether the output of a

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. whether vervet monkeys can have

    Trap

    9% picked this

  4. Correct

    whether the fact that the

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    81% picked this

  5. whether the behavior exhibited by

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    2% picked this

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