Those who participate in risky

Answer choices

1. A

   No Impact9% picked this

   Often those who suffer from fears such as a fear of heights either do not know that they suffer from those fears or do

   The author wasn't assuming that people who suffer from fear of heights almost always have a correct self-assessment of that fear, so it doesn't hurt her argument to say that people often don't have a correct self-assessment. This answer isn't related to either of two goals: 1. suggest an alternate explanation for why "people who play risky sports have high self-confidence" 2. hurt the plausibility of the storyline that "many people play a risky sport, in doing so confront a fear, and because of that get a boost to their self-confidence".

   9%
2. B

   Correct85% picked this

   In general, people who currently participate in risky sports had above-average self-confidence even before participating

   Why this is right

   This performs the 1st of our two possible goals: 1. suggest an alternate explanation for why "people who play risky sports have high self-confidence" 2. hurt the plausibility of the storyline that "many people play a risky sport, in doing so confront a fear, and because of that get a boost to their self-confidence". We get to say, "Hey, author the reason you're seeing that people who participate in risky sports have high self-confidence isn't because first they started doing risky activities, then confronting their fears caused a boost to their self-confidence. It's because first they had high-confidence, and then that led them to take on a risky activity that confronts their fear." In other words, this answer provides the alternate explanation of Reverse Causality, for the correlation between "risky sport participant" and "high self-confidence".

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

   85%
3. C

   No Impact3% picked this

   Most people who refrain from engaging in risky sports refrain from doing so for reasons other than a

   We don't really have any interest in people who don't play risky sports. We already know that they have less self-confidence on average than those who do play risky sports. We don't care for what reason it is that they're not engaging in risky sports. We need an answer to perform one of these two functions, both of which are about people who do play risky sports. 1. suggest an alternate explanation for why "people who play risky sports have high self-confidence" 2. hurt the plausibility of the storyline that "many people play a risky sport, in doing so confront a fear, and because of that get a boost to their self-confidence".

   3%
4. D

   No Impact3% picked this

   Participating in risky sports is not the only way to confront

   An answer this weak, "there's at least one other example", would usually not be correct on any problem that wants the most impactful answer (Strengthen, Weaken, Paradox, Suff Assump). Saying that there are other ways to confront fears besides risky sports performs neither of our two goals: 1. suggest an alternate explanation for why "people who play risky sports have high self-confidence" 2. hurt the plausibility of the storyline that "many people play a risky sport, in doing so confront a fear, and because of that get a boost to their self-confidence".

   3%
5. E

   No Impact1% picked this

   Most of those who do not participate in risky sports believe that they lack the capacity to

   We don't really have any interest in people who don't play risky sports. We don't care for what reason it is that they're not engaging in risky sports. We need an answer to perform one of these two functions, both of which are about people who do play risky sports. 1. suggest an alternate explanation for why "people who play risky sports have high self-confidence" 2. hurt the plausibility of the storyline that "many people play a risky sport, in doing so confront a fear, and because of that get a boost to their self-confidence".

   1%