When a lawmaker spoke out against a research grant awarded to a professor in a university’s psychology department as a foolish expenditure of public money, other professors in that department drafted a letter protesting the lawmaker’s interference in a field in which he was not trained.
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.