People who do not believe

Answer choices

1. A

   Half Wrong4% picked this

   People who believe that others distrust them tend to

   We were looking for this: tend to ? think others don't trust others distrust you This answer is almost the contrapositive, but the 2nd idea still says "tend to trust others", and we would want it to say "do not tend to trust other" This answer: think others ? tend to distrust you trust others

   4%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal24% picked this

   Confidence in one’s own abilities gives one confidence in the trustworthiness

   This doesn't look like the missing link we want: tend to trust others ? think others don't distrust you This answer provides this: confident in ---------> confident in own abilities trust of others Our premises gave us this: think others confident think hard task don't ? in own ? challenge distrust you abilities not threat Can we combine those to derive this? tend to think hard task trust -------------------------------> challenge others not threat Of course not. And the easiest way to see this from a bird's eye view is that we will don't have any rule that sounds like tend to trust ? [something] others Since the evidence never gave us a piece like that, if an answer choice doesn't give us that piece, we'll never be able to build the Conclusion's logic path.

   24%
3. C

   Correct61% picked this

   People who tend to trust others do not believe that others

   Why this is right

   This is exactly what we were looking for: tend to think others trust ? don't others distrust you We're trying to build this logic path in order to prove the Conclusion: tend to think hard task trust -------------------------------> challenge others not threat This answer choice gives us this tend don't think to trust ? others others distrust you The evidence gave us this don't think confident think hard task others ? in own ? challenge distrust you abilities not threat The answer snaps onto the evidence to create the logic path of the Conclusion.

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

   61%
4. D

   Unrelated to Goal8% picked this

   People who are not threatened by difficult tasks tend to find

   If an answer choice isn't talking about "people who tend to trust others", then it's worthless to us. The evidence didn't tell us anything about those types of people, so if this answer choice also doesn't tell us anything about them, then there's no way to derive a conclusion about them.

   8%
5. E

   Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   People tend to distrust those who they believe

   If an answer choice isn't talking about "people who tend to trust others", then it's worthless to us. The evidence didn't tell us anything about those types of people, so if this answer choice also doesn't tell us anything about them, then there's no way to derive a conclusion about them.

   3%