Michaela: I think doctors who

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Match2% picked this

   health information found on the Internet

   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.

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2. B

   Correct84% picked this

   the opinion of a patient who has done Internet research on his or her condition should have at least as much weight

   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%
3. C

   Weak Match7% picked this

   the opinion of a patient’s own doctor should not be given more weight than the opinions of

   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%
4. D

   Weak Match5% picked this

   a doctor’s explanation of a patient’s symptoms should be taken more seriously than the patient’s own view of

   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".

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5. E

   Bad Match2% picked this

   patients who do not research their conditions on the Internet give their doctors’

   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%