Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT129 S3 Q21 Explanation

Sociologist: The more technologically

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Stimulus

Sociologist: The more technologically advanced a society is, the more marked its members' resistance to technological innovations. This is not surprising, because the more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's deeply affect the quality of human relations.

What this question is testing

Role

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.

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The question
21.

The claim that the more technologically advanced a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's drawbacks plays which one of the following

Answer choices

  1. Wrong Role17% picked this

    It is a conclusion supported by the claim that people realize that sophisticated technologies deeply affect the

    The claim is not a conclusion based on the claim that follows it, but rather works in parallel with the claim that follows it to support the argument’s conclusion.

  2. Correct75% picked this

    It is offered as an explanation of why people's resistance to technological innovations is more marked the more technologically advanced the society

    Why this is right

    This correctly identifies the role of the claim as a reason why the more technologically advanced a society is, the more marked its members’ resistance to technological innovations.

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

  3. Contradiction2% picked this

    It is a premise in support of the claim that the quality of human relations in technologically advanced

    The claim that the quality of human relations in technologically advanced societies is extremely poor is not contained within the argument.

  4. Contradiction2% picked this

    It is a generalization based on the claim that the more people resist technological innovations, the more difficult it is for them

    The claim that the more people resist technological innovations, the more difficult it is for them to adjust to those innovations is not contained within the argument.

  5. Contradiction3% picked this

    It is an example presented to illustrate the claim that resistance to technological innovations deeply affects the

    The claim that resistance to technological innovations deeply affects the quality of human relations is not contained within the argument.

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