Columnist: Almost anyone can be an expert,

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct64% picked this

   Almost anyone can convince some people of his or her qualifications

   Why this is right

   If almost anyone can convince others of their qualifications, and if convincing others of your qualifications means that you're an expert, then almost anyone can be an expert.

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

   64%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   Some experts convince everyone of their qualifications in almost

   Since the conclusion makes a claim about "almost anyone" but there is no evidence that tells us a fact about "almost anyone", we know the correct answer needs to. This answer isn't telling us anything that's true of "almost anyone", so it can't possibly help us to derive a claim about "almost anyone".

   1%
3. C

   Unrelated to Goal Opposite6% picked this

   Convincing certain people that one is qualified in an area requires that one actually be

   Since the conclusion makes a claim about "almost anyone" but there is no evidence that tells us a fact about "almost anyone", we know the correct answer needs to. This answer isn't telling us anything that's true of "almost anyone", so it can't possibly help us to derive a claim about "almost anyone". This answer conversationally seems to go against the author's gist. She seems to be thinking that almost anyone can be an expert because you only need to convince people that you're qualified; you don't actually need to be qualified.

   6%
4. D

   Unrelated to Goal27% picked this

   Every expert has convinced some people of his or her qualifications

   Since the conclusion makes a claim about "almost anyone" but there is no evidence that tells us a fact about "almost anyone", we know the correct answer needs to. This answer isn't telling us anything that's true of "almost anyone", so it can't possibly help us to derive a claim about "almost anyone".

   27%
5. E

   Too Weak2% picked this

   Some people manage to convince almost everyone of their qualifications in one

   This answer would allow us to derive that "some people are experts in one or more areas". But we're trying to derive that "almost anyone can be an expert", and this answer isn't giving us a way to prove that such a high percentage of people can be experts.

   2%