Logical Reasoning

PT151 · S2 · Q6 Michaela: I think doctors who

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Michaela: I think doctors who complain about patients doing medical research on the Internet are being a little unfair.

Michaela's Conclusion

It's a little unfair for doctors to complain about patients doing medical research on the internet.

Michaela's Evidence

It seems natural that a patient would want to know as much as possible about their condition.

Sam's Conclusion

It's not unfair for them to complain.

Sam's Evidence

Doctors (unlike patients, presumably) have undergone years of training. How can you say that a doctor's opinion isn't worth more than an untrained Internet search?

Evaluate

If I were Michaela, I would be immediately responding,

Goal

Since Michaela never said and yet Sam is accusing her of having said that, we can say he misinterpreted her remarks to mean that.

So let's look for something like , or an answer that would sound enough like that that Sam would think he heard that.

6.

Sam’s response indicates that he interpreted Michaela’s remarks to mean that

  1. health information found on the

    Bad Match

    We're looking for some rephrasing of "a doctor's opinion is not worth more than something an untrained person comes up with after searching the Internet". Saying the information on the Internet is trustworthy would potentially support this claim, but it isn't itself this claim.

    2% picked this

  2. Correct

    the opinion of a patient

    Why this is right

    We're looking for some rephrasing of "a doctor's opinion is not worth more than something an untrained person comes up with after searching the Internet". This seems to have a lot of the right language. Are they just flipping the syntax of the inequality? By that I mean, going from "Kevin is shorter than Paul" to "Paul is taller than Kevin", since they both represent the same inequality: Kevin < Paul Yes. Sam heard Michaela saying "a doc's opinion is not worth more than patient's internet search". If a doc's opinion is "not worth more", then we would write that mathematically as "less than or equal to". Doc's opinion ? Patient's web search And this answer is using that same inequality, just starting with the patient as the subject, rather than the doctor. The patient's web search is greater than or equal to the doc's opinion, or as this answer says it, at least as much weight.

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

    84% picked this

  3. the opinion of a patient’s

    Weak Match

    We're looking for some rephrasing of "a doctor's opinion is not worth more than something an untrained person comes up with after searching the Internet". This is close, but it goes off the rails at the end. It compares "your doc's opinion" to "the opinions of doctors published on websites", but Sam's quote didn't make that comparison. His was just "your doc's opinion" vs. "what a patient comes up with after searching on the Internet". That latter idea may or may not involve the opinions of doctors published on websites, so we can't swap out "what patients come up with after searching the web" for "the opinions of doctors published on websites".

    7% picked this

  4. a doctor’s explanation of a

    Weak Match

    We're looking for some rephrasing of "a doctor's opinion is not worth more than something an untrained person comes up with after searching the Internet". Instead of comparing "doctor's opinion" to "results of internet searching", this answer is comparing "doctor's explanation of symptoms" to "patient's own view".

    5% picked this

  5. patients who do not research

    Bad Match

    We're looking for some rephrasing of "a doctor's opinion is not worth more than something an untrained person comes up with after searching the Internet". This is talking about patients who don't search the web for research on their conditions, so it can't match the quote we're looking for.

    2% picked this

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