Editorial: This political party has

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope: Vote Against23% picked this

   It is inconsistent for a legislator both to claim that increasing spending on education is a worthy goal and to vote

   This argument only discussed this political party expressing a view about increased spending and claiming something about spending. The argument doesn't deal with anyone voting against spending.

   23%
2. B

   Bad Conclusion Match1% picked this

   A consistent course of action in educational policy is usually the course of action that will reduce spending on

   Whenever we see a conditional answer choice on Necessary Assumption, we want to think about how the conditional would be diagrammed and consider whether the author made that reasoning move. If we contrapose this answer, this rule can help us prove that " a certain course of action in educational policy was not consistent". But we're trying to prove that a political party's policy was not consistent. The author never made a reasoning move that concluded that a certain course of action within educational policy was inconsistent.

   1%
3. C

   Out of Scope: Morally Good1% picked this

   Even if a goal is a morally good one, one should not necessarily try

   This argument doesn't have anything to do with morality. That concept was never discussed, so the author hasn't made any assumptions about it.

   1%
4. D

   Correct68% picked this

   A consistent political policy does not hold that an action that comprises a worthy goal

   Why this is right

   If we say, "A gentleman never tells", it's diagrammed Gentleman ? Never tells This answer is saying, "A consistent party never holds that an action with a worthy goal should not be performed", so it would look like, Consistent ? wouldn't hold action w/ worthy party goal shouldn't be performed Whenever we see a conditional answer choice on Necessary Assumption, we want to think about how the conditional would be diagrammed and consider whether the author made that reasoning move. Since the conclusion is "inconsistent", we would want to contrapose this and get: does hold an action not w/ worthy goal ? consistent shouldn't be performed party The political party expressed that "increasing spending on education is a worthy goal". And then later it said that the government shouldn't perform the action of increasing spending on education.

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

   68%
5. E

   Too Strong: never7% picked this

   Members of one political party never have inconsistent views on how to best approach

   The author didn't say anything that would commit her to this extreme idea that members of political parties never ever have conflicting views on the best approach to a political issue.

   7%