Logical Reasoning

PT127 · S2 · Q13 Heart attacks are most likely

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Heart attacks are most likely to occur on Mondays.

Apparent Paradox

Heart attacks are most likely to occur on Mondays.

The accepted explanation is that because Monday is the first day of the workweek, people feel more stress on Mondays than on other days.

However, research shows that even unemployed retired people are more likely to have heart attacks on Mondays than on other days.

Evaluate

How can Monday being the first day of the workweek explain the greater incidence of heart attacks when unemployed retired people experience the same thing? Could be a legacy factor? If somehow people were influenced in certain ways because they had undergone the stress of those Mondays that might work. Or if the stress of family and friends who continued to work somehow influenced unemployed retired people that might work as well.

13.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the increased likelihood that an unemployed retiree will have a heart attack on a Monday?

  1. Correct

    Because they associate Monday with

    Why this is right

    This provides a way that Monday starting the work week influences the choice about when to start a project, which thereby might increase the chance of a heart attack.

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

    87% picked this

  2. Many retired people take up

    Out of Scope

    The phenomenon needs to be explained within people who are unemployed and retired.

    5% picked this

  3. People seldom change their dietary

    Weaken

    This undermines the claim that Monday being the start of the workweek explains the increased incidence of heart attacks.

    4% picked this

  4. Stress is the major factor

    Too Weak

    This fails to explain how Monday could increase stress for someone unemployed and retired.

    2% picked this

  5. Unemployed retired people are even

    Deepens the Paradox

    This would make it all the more puzzling that Monday being the first day of the workweek would explain the incidence of heart attacks.

    3% picked this

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