Safety expert: Tuna is often treated

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope Too Weak3% picked this

   Workers in fish processing plants can be sickened by exposure to carbon monoxide if the appropriate safety procedures are

   We only care about how people are getting sick from eating tuna. These workers aren't getting sick by eating it. Also, answers that say "if measures aren't taken / if appropriate steps aren't followed" are inherently weak because we have no reason to think that appropriate procedures would not be followed.

   3%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   Over the last several years, tuna consumption has increased in most parts

   This doesn't have anything to do with the carbon monoxide browning treatment. Independently, more people eating tuna leads to more people getting sick from tuna, but this has no tie-in to the causal connection between the treatment and the uptick in tuna-sick. We'd have to add in an assumption that "the treatment has led to increased tuna consumption in the most parts of the world".

   1%
3. C

   Correct94% picked this

   Tuna that is treated with carbon monoxide provides no visible indication when it has spoiled to the point that

   Why this is right

   This connects the idea of "not browning" to "people get sick eating it". If there were some treatment that would prevent milk from smelling like spoiled milk once it had gone bad, then people would probably keep drinking the milk even once it had gone rotten and would get sick from it more often. This is similarly saying that the browning treatment is making it so that people can't tell when their tuna is rotten sometimes, so they're eating rotten tuna and getting sick.

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

   94%
4. D

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   Treating tuna with carbon monoxide is the only way to keep it from turning brown

   This doesn't explain in any way why people are getting sick from the treated tuna.

   1%
5. E

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   Most consumers strongly prefer tuna that is not brown because they believe that brown tuna

   Just like (D), this offers a reason why the treatment is given, but we need a reason why people are getting sick from eating the treated tuna.

   1%