Pat: E-mail fosters anonymity

Answer choices

1. A

   Half Scope5% picked this

   barriers to self-revelation hinder the initial growth

   Yes, Pat would agree with this, but Amar doesn't weigh in on whether barriers to self-revelation have any effect on intimacy.

   5%
2. B

   Both Agree8% picked this

   E-mail can increase intimacy between

   No one is going to argue the extreme claim that "email cannot ever increase intimacy between friends", so they would likely agree with this. We know Pat thinks intimacy can be achieved over email, and Amar thinks that intimacy is possible between friends (who have had personal contact but may nonetheless also interact over email).

   8%
3. C

   Correct83% picked this

   intimacy between those who communicate with each other solely by e-mail

   Why this is right

   Correct: Pat says Yes, Amar says No This gets at the second of our predictions: whether direct personal contact is / isn't necessary. Since Amar thinks direct personal contact is necessary for intimacy, he would be committed to the idea that if you communicate "solely by email" then you don't have direct personal contact and thus you can't have intimacy. Pat, meanwhile, clearly believes that email can promote intimacy that would otherwise be achieved through years of direct personal contact, so she seems to believe that email itself can create the intimacy.

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

   83%
4. D

   Too Strong: "always"2% picked this

   real social bonds always lead to

   Both of them would probably disagree with this because of how strongly it's worded. Amar thinks that social bonds are necessary for intimacy, but this answer is claiming that they are sufficient to always produce intimacy.

   2%
5. E

   Half Scope2% picked this

   the use of e-mail removes barriers

   We know that Pat would agree that this does occur in at least some cases. But we haven't heard anything from Amar that would allow us to infer his opinions on whether email can ever remove barriers to frankness. If anything, he seems to accept Pat's notion that email can lead to more self-revelation / frankness.

   2%