Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT110 S3 Q8 Explanation

Dr. Jones: The new technology dubbed

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Stimulus

Dr. Jones: The new technology dubbed "telemedicine" will provide sustained improvement in at least rural patient care since it allows rural physicians to televise medical examinations to specialists who live at great distances-specialists who will the rural patient would otherwise not receive.

Dr. Carabella: Not so. Telemedicine might help rural patient care initially. However, small hospitals will soon realize that they can minimize expenses by replacing physicians with technicians who can use telemedicine to transmit examinations to large medical centers, resulting in fewer patients being able to receive traditional, direct medical examination. Eventually, it attention. Hence, rural as well as urban patient care will suffer.

What this question is testing

Method

Your task

Describe how the argument proceeds — the technique it uses to reach its conclusion.

Common trap

Answers that describe a method the argument doesn't actually use.

Winning move

Track the role each statement plays, then match that to the choice describing the same moves.

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The question
8.

Dr. Carabella uses which one of the following strategies in responding to

Answer choices

  1. Trap5% picked this

    listing a set of considerations to show that a prescribed treatment that seems to be benefiting a patient

  2. Correct95% picked this

    describing the application of the technology discussed by Dr. Jones as one step that initiates a process that

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

  3. Trap0% picked this

    citing evidence that Dr. Jones lacks the professional training to judge the

  4. Trap0% picked this

    invoking medical statistics that cast doubt on the premises used in

  5. Trap0% picked this

    providing grounds for dismissing Dr. Jones’s interpretation of a key term

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