Sociologist: Television, telephones, and other

Answer choices

1. A

   Possible14% picked this

   There are no political demagogues in some highly

   To contradict this, we would need to derive that "If society is highly technological, then there is always political demagogue". We don't have the means to derive an idea that strong. We just know that if a highly technological society involves a lot of electronic media, it encourages a type of lazy thinking that makes a society more vulnerable to demagogues.

   14%
2. B

   Possible2% picked this

   Political demagogues are not the only ones who seek to exploit people by presenting emotionally loaded language as

   To contradict this, we would need to be able to derive from the stimulus that "only demagogues use charged language to exploit people". The passage just told us that demagogues do this. It didn't say that only demagogues do this (maybe high school football coaches also use emotionally loaded language, 'we're at WAR with Lincoln High', to exploit their players' utmost motivation). So we can't contradict this.

   2%
3. C

   Out of Scope: highly emotional4% picked this

   Highly emotional people are more easily exploited than less

   We don't have any information at all about highly emotional people or less emotional people, so we couldn't possibly contradict a claim about them.

   4%
4. D

   Correct63% picked this

   The mere presence of an orderly system of government in a society provides adequate protection

   Why this is right

   This contradicts the conditional we're given in the 2nd claim. That conditional told us that you only have adequate protection against demagogues if you have critical thinking. This is saying that all you need for adequate protection is an orderly system of government. According to this answer, a society that had no critical thinking but did have an orderly system of government would be adequately protected against demagogues (because the mere presence of the orderly system provides the adequate protection). But according to the paragraph, such a society would not be adequately protected against demagogues, because it lacks critical thinking. This matches one of our predictions - sometimes there's adequate protection, even though there's no critical thinking but they disguised it well.

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

   63%
5. E

   Out of Scope17% picked this

   The mere presence of electronic communications technology in a society provides adequate protection against the

   Out of Scope: erosion of media freedoms We don't have any information at all about media freedoms or how they might erode, so we can't possibly contradict a claim about those concepts.

   17%