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In marketing their products, drug companies often send gifts to physicians.
According to a recent P -most→ ~I survey, most physicians believe that their own choices when prescribing drugs are not influenced by drug companies’ gifts.
The same survey P -most→ ~I indicates that the majority of physicians believe that most other physicians’ prescription choices are influenced by such gifts.
If the survey results are accurate, which one of the following must be true?
Physicians who do not accept
This supports the physicians who believe that most other physicians are influenced by such gifts.
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Most physicians believe that drug
What physicians believe should be done about the practice of sending gifts to physicians is not discussed in the passage.
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Some physicians are mistaken either
Why this is right
Either some physicians are wrong that they are not influenced by such gifts or some physicians are wrong that most physicians are influenced by such gifts. But it cannot be that both beliefs are true, otherwise a contradiction would ensue and some physicians who are not influenced by such gifts would be influenced by such gifts.
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Some physicians who admit that
The degree of influence for either belief is not discussed in the statements.
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All physicians who admit that
While it could be the case that all physicians who believe oneself to be influenced by gifts could believe that most others are influenced gifts, it could also be that some of these physicians do not believe that most other physicians are influenced by gifts. This is demonstrated in a possible counterexample below. Don’t Believe most believe most others are others are influenced influenced Total Believe oneself is 20 20 <50 influenced Don’t believe oneself is 40 20 >50 influenced Total >50 <50 100
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