Humans' emotional tendencies are

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: no significant changes6% picked this

   Humans have undergone no significant changes since the origin of

   Just because our emotional tendencies haven't changed doesn't mean the author is assuming NOTHING has changed.

   6%
2. B

   Out of Scope9% picked this

   Humans who make wise choices are generally in control of

   Out of Scope: in control of emotions We never discuss being "in control" of our emotions. The author isn't revealing her opinion on how wise we were, or how wise we are. She's just saying, "since emotional tendencies haven't changed, ability to choose wisely hasn't changed".

   9%
3. C

   Out of Scope3% picked this

   Human history cannot make humans any wiser unless humans are emotionally disposed to heed the

   Out of Scope: disposed to heed lessons Nothing in this argument is talking about whether or not humans have the emotional disposition to take to heart the lessons of history. We aren't talking about learning from history's lessons at all.

   3%
4. D

   Too Strong: choose on emotions alone26% picked this

   Regardless of the range of choices available to humans, they choose on the basis of

   The author has not committed herself to this crazy-extreme idea that every human chooses on the basis of emotions alone. She's just saying "whatever influence/tendencies emotions had for early humans is similar to what they have today", and then concluding "our ability to choose wisely must have stayed the same". All this assumes is that "ability to make wise choices is affected by / dependent on our emotional tendencies in some way". It doesn't assume that all humans make every decision based only on emotions.

   26%
5. E

   Correct56% picked this

   Humans would now be able to make wiser choices than in centuries past only if an essential change had taken

   Why this is right

   When Necessary Assumption answers are in conditional form, we can just diagram them and figure out whether they match the argument core: only if = right side Humans able to make → essential change took wiser choices place in emotional dispositions Since we always compare these conditionals to the argument in "IF Premise, THEN Conclusion" form, we'll need to contrapose this so that we can get the right side of the arrow to be talking about whether humans are able to make wiser choices (since that was the Conclusion.) Contrapositive: no essential change humans won't be able to humans' emotional → to make wiser choices dispositions than in centuries past Does that match the argument? Yes, perfectly! The left side matches the premise, and the right side matches the conclusion.

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

   56%