Logical Reasoning

PT135 · S1 · Q4 Swimming pools should be fenced

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Swimming pools should be fenced to protect children from drowning, but teaching children to swim is even more important.

Background

Pools should have fences to protect kids from drowning, but even more important is that we teach children to swim.

This principle applies even more generally to childrearing. (what principle? Protecting them from X is good, but teaching them to handle X safely is even better)

While it's good to restrict access to soda / candy,

Setup

it's even more important to teach them ...

Evaluate / Goal

... "how to swim" with soda and candy?

We need to Complete the Analogy, figuring out what the equivalent of "teaching children to swim" would be when it comes to soda / candy.

Restricting access to soda / candy matched up with building a fence to restrict access to a pool.

So we're looking for whatever the "teach them how to swim" equivalent would be with .

4.

Which one of the following most logically completes the passage?

  1. that television can be a

    Unrelated to Goal

    This blank has to complete the analogy and sound something like "teach them how to safely deal with the world of soda / candy". This answer doesn't even bring up soda / candy.

    2% picked this

  2. that television advertisements are deceptive

    Unrelated to Goal

    This blank has to complete the analogy and sound something like "teach them how to safely deal with the world of soda / candy". This answer doesn't even bring up soda / candy.

    4% picked this

  3. Correct

    how to make nutritional choices

    Why this is right

    This blank has to complete the analogy and sound something like "teach them how to safely deal with the world of soda / candy". This answer doesn't bring up soda / candy explicitly, but "nutritional choices" relates to eating candy or drinking soda. Teaching your kid to swim allows you to feel like, "even if I'm not watching them, I trust themselves not to get themselves into trouble / danger". Teaching your kid to safely navigate the world of soda / candy would feel like, "even if I'm not watching them, I trust them not to go too far with soda / candy, to make good nutritional choices." This answer certainly plays off our common sense understanding that soda and candy are nutritional choices that are not conducive to our well-being, especially if done to excess.

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

    91% picked this

  4. the importance of physical activity

    Unrelated to Goal

    This blank has to complete the analogy and sound something like "teach them how to safely deal with the world of soda / candy". This answer doesn't relate as well as the correct answer does to soda / candy. We might think, "well, if we teach them how important physical activity is to health and well-being, then they won't eat soda / candy". But that's a strained connection. Telling them that exercise is important is a good match for telling them soda / candy should not feature prominently in their diet? Both exercise and diet are related to health and well-being, but this answer is just about exercise, whereas the answer we're seeking needs to be about diet.

    3% picked this

  5. how to creatively entertain themselves

    Unrelated to Goal

    This blank has to complete the analogy and sound something like "teach them how to safely deal with the world of soda / candy". This answer doesn't even bring up soda / candy or healthy eating.

    0% picked this

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