Logical Reasoning

PT124 · S1 · Q10 Public health experts

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Public health experts have waged a long-standing educational campaign to get people to eat more vegetables, which are known to help prevent cancer.

Conclusion (thus)

Including information on ways to make vegetables more appetizing will make the campaign to get people to eat more vegetables more effective.

Evidence

The premise suggests people may not eat vegetables because they find them unappetizing, and providing methods to improve taste could encourage consumption.

Evaluate

We could think of this as a Plan / Goal style argument. GOAL: get people to eat more veggies PLAN: give them info on how to make veggies more appetizing

How could this plan potentially fail to achieve the goal? Would people fail to read the info? Would they try to follow cooking suggestions and mess them up, making veggies even more unappetizing?

The author is also just speculating that the reason people don't eat veggies is that they find them unappetizing. Maybe that's not the core issue. Maybe it's more about the cost of veggies or difficulty of finding good ones.

Goal

Look for an answer that rules out any of these objections or somehow otherwise helps us to think that the PLAN of providing information on making vegetables more appealing will successfully achieve the GOAL of increased consumption of vegetables.

10.

Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?

  1. The campaign to get people

    No Impact

    This mentions a campaign's minimal impact among those who already love vegetables, which is irrelevant, as the focus is on those who don’t find vegetables appetizing.

    2% picked this

  2. Some ways of making vegetables

    Opposite (if anything)

    This suggests making vegetables appetizing might reduce their nutritional value, presenting a potential backfire and weakening the argument for the plan's effectiveness at making people healthier.

    0% picked this

  3. People who find a few

    Unclear Impact

    This compares eating habits based on a few appetizing vegetables vs. disliking most, offering unclear relevance to whether new methods will increase vegetable consumption for those who find them unappealing. It's also weird that you could easily be someone who both dislikes most vegetables but finds a few of them appetizing, so these groups are highly overlapping.

    1% picked this

  4. Correct

    People who dislike the taste

    Why this is right

    This specifically states that people who dislike veggies would eat more if they knew how to make them appetizing, directly supporting the plan’s effectiveness and showing that it targets the Root Issue, therefore strengthening the argument.

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

    90% picked this

  5. The only way to make

    Weaker Impact

    We could reword this as, "If we can't ensure that every single person who presently dislikes the taste of certain veggies will learn to find those veggies appetizing, then the campaign will not be effective". Saying "the only way to do X is to do Y" is akin to saying "if you don't do Y, then X won't happen". This answer might seem tempting because it kind of sounds like "the only way to achieve the Goal is to do this Plan", but that doesn't actually mean the Plan will work. If we say, "the only way to win this game is to score a 90 yard touchdown on this last play", that doesn't mean it's at all likely that we'll score a 90 yd TD on the last play. Meanwhile (D) is saying, "If we do the Plan, we will achieve the Goal".

    7% picked this

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