Physician: In an experiment

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct90% picked this

   A patient's merely knowing that a treatment has been applied can lead to improvement in

   Why this is right

   This provides an alternative cause for the back pain relief other than the magnetic field treatments.

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

   90%
2. B

   Too Weak1% picked this

   Most physicians believe that medication relieves chronic back pain more effectively

   This makes magnets less effective than medication, but that does not mean that magnets are not effective.

   1%
3. C

   Out of Scope1% picked this

   No other experiments have been done showing that magnetic fields reduce pain in any area

   Pain in areas other than the back is not relevant to this argument.

   1%
4. D

   Strengthen1% picked this

   Some of the scientists who helped design the experiment believed even before the experiment that magnetic fields relieve back pain, but they were not

   This makes it more likely that magnets are probably effective at relieving some back pain.

   1%
5. E

   Out of Scope6% picked this

   There was wide variation in the specific causes of the chronic back pain suffered by the

   What caused the chronic back pain is less important than what relieved the back pain in this experiment.

   6%