Critics worry that pessimistic news

Answer choices

1. A

   Misrepresents Critics' Position3% picked this

   Critics who think that the economy is affected by the extent of people's confidence in

   Inference questions routinely put a very tempting trap answer at (A). It's designed to sound a lot like our prediction, but be minutely wrong. We wanted an answer to say "critics who think that the economy is affected by pessimistic news reports are wrong". The economy may well be affected by people's confidence in it. What we learned from the paragraph is that people's confidence in the economy isn't going to be affected by pessimistic news reports.

   3%
2. B

   Negation15% picked this

   Pessimistic news reports about such matters as foreign policy, of which people do not have experience every day, are likely

   This is taking a conditional relationship we know if have direct experience, don't defer to journalists, won't have negative impact and trying to illegally flip these ideas if don't have direct experience, do defer to journalists, will have negative impact.

   15%
3. C

   Opposite7% picked this

   Pessimistic news reports about the state of the economy are likely to

   We've come away with an almost contradictory understanding. Since everyone has direct experience with the economy, they won't defer to journalists, meaning they won't take the pessimism of the news report to heart if it's not a view they don't already have (won't defer to journalist is like "won't accept their view in place of our view"). Since people won't change their opinions on the economy based on what a journalist says, these dire news reports aren't likely to harm the economy.

   7%
4. D

   Correct69% picked this

   News reports about the economy are unlikely to have a significant effect on people's opinions about the

   Why this is right

   Since everyone has direct experience with the economy, they won't defer to journalists on the economy, so they won't be likely to change their opinions on the economy based on what a journalist says.

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

   69%
5. E

   Trap6% picked this

   Journalists need not be deeply concerned about their reporting's effects on the well-being of

   Too Broad Out of Scope: well-being of average citizen We could draw a more tightly narrow takeaway about articles about the economy, but we can't speak to journalists' work overall, because they might often (or even usually) be writing about topics of which people don't have experience and are influenced by the journalist.

   6%