All unemployed artists are sympathetic

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct60% picked this

   If there are artists interested in the prospect of great personal fame, they are sympathetic

   Why this is right

   The second sentence tells us that If there are artists interested in fame, then they are not employed artists, which means they're unemployed artists. And the first sentence says that If they're unemployed artists, then they are sympathetic to social justice. So we can derive what this answer is saying. FOR ARTISTS interested → not → sympathetic to in great fame employed social justice

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

   60%
2. B

   Unknown Trigger13% picked this

   All artists uninterested in the prospect of great personal fame are sympathetic

   We can't say anything about "all people uninterested in fame" because that wasn't any of our triggers. We only know these four things: unemployed → sympathetic to SJ not sympathetic → not unemployed employed → not interested in fame interested in fame → not employed This answer is starting from a trigger idea we don't have, not interested in fame → so we can't prove anything about the group of all people not interested in fame (which includes all employed artists and potentially some unemployed artists as well).

   13%
3. C

   Illegal Negation6% picked this

   Every unemployed artist is interested in the prospect of great

   The only thing we know about every unemployed artist is that they're sympathetic to social justice. This answer might be trying to bait people into thinking, "Since they told me that employed artists are not interested in fame, that must mean that unemployed artists are interested in fame." That's an illegal negation. If I tell you that "North American countries are affected by climate change", that doesn't mean that I'm saying "South American countries are not affected by climate change".

   6%
4. D

   Unknown Trigger Reversed Logic11% picked this

   If an artist is sympathetic to social justice, that artist

   Just like (B), we can't say anything about "all people sympathetic to social justice" because that wasn't any of our triggers. We only know these four things: unemployed → sympathetic to SJ not sympathetic → not unemployed employed → not interested in fame interested in fame → not employed This answer is starting from a trigger idea we don't have, sympathetic to social justice → This answer is just reversing the conditional in the first sentence.

   11%
5. E

   One-Word Off10% picked this

   All artists are either sympathetic to social justice or are interested in the prospect of

   This answer is trying to play off our binary set of triggers. If you're an artist, you have to either be employed or unemployed, because that is a binary, exhaustive set of options. As an artist, since you're bound to be be employed or unemployed, you're bound to trigger one of those rules, so you're bound to be sympathetic to social justice, not interested in great fame, or both. But this answer says they are interested in great fame. If it said "all artists are sympathetic to social justice or not interested in great fame", it would also be correct.

   10%