Game show winners choosing

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Conclusion Match / Flawed Logic4% picked this

   With a book contract, an academic writer receives either an advance or a guarantee of royalties. Professor al-Sofi received an advance for a book

   This concludes that something one of the "or" options did not happen, whereas the original argument concluded that one of the "or" options did happen. This argument is actually flawed logic because "either X or Y" means "at least one of them", not "exactly one of them". If we're ever expected to think exactly one of them, it will say "but not both". So it's possible that someone gets both an advance and a guarantee.

   4%
2. B

   Bad Conclusion Match / Flawed Logic3% picked this

   When entering this amusement park, children always choose to take their first ride on either the Rocket or the Mouse. Janine insisted on the

   Similar to (A), this conclusion is ruling out the other option, although it's not even a match for the other option, it's a weirdly specific new idea about where she would have been standing. In the original argument, a premise ruled out one of the two options, and the conclusion affirmed the remaining option. In (A) and (B), we've seen the premise affirming one of the two options, and then trying to conclude that the other one (or something related to the other one) is ruled out.

   3%
3. C

   Bad Premise Match10% picked this

   The elliptical orbit of an asteroid is only slightly eccentric unless it is affected by the gravitational pull of a planet. Asteroid Y is

   Bad Premise Match: No "or" in the Outcome To mimic the flow of the original argument, we need an either/or so that can we can rule out one option and conclude the other. This conditional doesn't give us an either/or outcome.

   10%
4. D

   Bad Conclusion Match2% picked this

   New students in this program must choose either a physics class or an art class. Miyoko has no desire to take a class in

   We do get an either/or, physics or art. But rather than ruling one out and concluding the other, the author rules them both out and concludes that the trigger will probably not happen.

   2%
5. E

   Correct80% picked this

   To avoid predators, rabbits will either double back on their pursuers or flee for nearby cover. The rabbit being pursued by a fox in

   Why this is right

   We get a conditional either/or, double back or flee for cover. Then the facts establish that the trigger has been met (we have a rabbit that is trying to avoid predators), rules out one option (not gonna flee) and concludes the other option. Rabbit Double back + ? or Avoiding Predators Flee for cover This pursued rabbit is avoiding predators. It can't flee. ?????????????????????????????????????????? Thus, it will double back.

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

   80%