A person with low self-esteem

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: usually5% picked this

   people with low self-esteem are usually right when they think they have

   We can't get this quantitatively specific and say that in more than 50% of cases, the low self-esteem people are correct in their interpretation of how they're being treated. The first sentence is compatible with the idea that 10% of the time low self esteem people are being disrespected, while only 6% of the time are high self esteem people being disrespected. Meanwhile, the second sentence is compatible with the idea that low self-esteem people think they're being disrespected 80% of the time. In that example, which is compatible with our background facts, the people with low self-esteem are usually wrong to think they're being disrespected.

   5%
2. B

   Out of Scope: tends to cause2% picked this

   being treated disrespectfully tends to cause a person to develop

   There are no causal claims made here. This is just baiting students into adding our own speculative fun (as my brain was tempted to do when I summarized the first statement). It never says that being treated disrespectfully tends to cause lower self-esteem. Both facts are just statistical comparisons. Neither are causal.

   2%
3. C

   Too Strong: probably because4% picked this

   if an individual has been treated disrespectfully, it is probably because the individual was perceived

   If we said "people convicted of prior felonies will have a harder time getting a job than will people without prior felony convictions", does that mean we can say ... If someone is having trouble finding a job, they probably have a prior felony conviction. Of course not. There might be way more people having trouble finding jobs for other reasons. Similarly, there might be way more cases where people are treated disrespectfully for some cause besides their self-esteem. So we can't make a broad generalization like, "disrespect is usually caused by low self esteem." This answer should also not seem too appealing since it would seem to only be using the first sentence for support, and on Logical Completion questions we're expecting the correct answer to synthesize the two ideas we've heard leading into the blank.

   4%
4. D

   Correct88% picked this

   people with low self-esteem more frequently think that they are being treated disrespectfully than do

   Why this is right

   Both ideas combine to guarantee this. To use my analogy from before, "if younger women are more often receiving sexist comments than are older women, and younger women are more likely to interpret a given comment as being sexist, then younger women are going to be thinking more often that they're hearing a sexist comment." Similarly, if low self-esteem people are more likely to be disrespected (in reality) and more likely to interpret a situation as them being disrespected (whether right or wrong), then they will more frequently be thinking, "I'm being disrespected".

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

   88%
5. E

   Out of Scope: treat disrespectfully0% picked this

   a person with low self-esteem will be more inclined to treat others disrespectfully than will a

   The information given was only about likelihood of being treated disrespectfully or believing you're being treated disrespectfully. There was no information provided about treating people disrespectfully more often.

   0%