Any government practice that might

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: most cases8% picked this

   In most cases in which government officials conceal information from the public, they are not

   We only hear about quantities like "sometimes" and "too often". We have no idea what is true in most (i.e. more than 50% of) cases. To derive this answer, we would need to have been told that in most cases that government officials conceal information, they do not have compelling reasons.

   8%
2. B

   Unsupported Relationship20% picked this

   In those cases in which government officials have a compelling reason to keep a secret, doing so does not

   We don't have any way to say definitively what happens when officials do have a compelling reason. We certainly can't draw a connection from "if compelling reason, then doesn't facilitate abuse of power". This is garbling together ideas from the first sentence, but those two ideas are not conditionally connected at all (they're both ideas that come from the trigger of the rule).

   20%
3. C

   Correct51% picked this

   A government official who justifiably keeps a secret should not conceal its existence without having a compelling

   Why this is right

   This uses a specific storyline to be weird and un-tempting, but it reinforces the connection we made between the last sentence and the first sentence. The fact that the secret was justifiably kept in the first place has nothing to do with this answer being right/wrong. It's just an extraneous detail. Since concealing that a secret is being kept is a practice that might facilitate the abuse of power, we know that government officials shouldn't do it unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

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

   51%
4. D

   Unsupported Relationship16% picked this

   Government officials who conceal information without a compelling reason are thereby guilty of an

   We don't have any rule that allows us to say, "you are guilty of abuse of power." That would look like this: _____________ → abused power Our conditionals look like this: practice might facilitate abuse and → shouldn't do it no compelling reason govt official conceals from opens up public that they're keeping → possibility for a secret abuse

   16%
5. E

   Too Strong5% picked this

   Government officials should keep information secret only if doing so does not make it easier for those officials

   This rule (when we contrapose it says), if keeping info secret does should not make it easier for officials → keep info to abuse power secret That's too strong an idea, when the paragraph is not saying they should never keep secrets; it allows for the fact that you can keep a secret if there's a compelling reason to do so.

   5%