Logical Reasoning

PT152 · S2 · Q6 Researchers studying athletes

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Researchers studying athletes found that those who played mainly for the love of their sport actually had sharper vision during athletic competitions than those whose main goal was winning a trophy or championship.

Statements

Comparison - a Difference playing for sharper playin' 4 the love vision that chip of the game > (for a trophy)

Causal Difference-Maker (because)

The vision was sharper, because our sharpness of vision is determined by our ability to focus on the activity itself. So ...

CAUSE EFFECT(s) ability to focus on increased sharper the activity itself concentration vision

Evaluate

This stimulus is my dream come true, because it speaks to every scrappy blacktop basketball player out there. When you're just playing for the love of the game, rather than peripheral concerns like trophies or championships, you have sharper vision, because you're more focused on the activity itself.

"Sharper vision" is the overlapping term in these two facts, so we want to think about how these two facts about "sharper vision" combine.

The second sentence is a monster. It's saying that there's a correlation between "focused on activity itself" and having "more concentration".

attention is focused || more concentration on activity itself

Concentration is necessary for acute (sharper) vision. And they're implying that the vision of the group playing mainly for the love of their sport was sharper because they possessed a greater degree of that vision-concentration.

Putting those two together, we're getting this rough idea that,

the more your attention the more you the sharper is focused on activity can concentrate your vision

In the first sentence we were told that people who play for the love have the sharper vision. So we can infer that people who play for the love have more attention focused on the activity itself.

Goal

Look for a safely worded claim, probably dealing with the crossover (basketball pun intended) idea that

6.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the statements above?

  1. Winning a trophy or championship

    Too Strong: not important

    People who plain mainly for the love can still find winning a trophy or title important. Just because something isn't your main reason for doing something, doesn't mean it's an unimportant reason for doing something. Maybe the main reason you'll pick Law School X will be because of school ranking, but that doesn't mean that financial aid considerations will not be important to you. In general, beware answer choices that feel like they're only pulling language from one sentence. The correct answer is almost always a crossover of ideas from 2 or more claims.

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  2. If an athlete’s main goal

    Too Strong: lack adequate vision

    This information we got would support the idea that athletes whose main goal is winning a trophy/championship have less sharp vision than people playing mainly for the love. But we can't say they would lack something required for adequate vision. If something is required for adequate vision, and you lack it, then you do not have adequate vision. Your vision is inadequate. That's too harsh. The paragraph is comparing how much of certain traits people have (Relative), not dealing with on / off ideas (Absolute), like "adequate / not adequate".

    7% picked this

  3. Correct

    Athletes who play mainly for

    Why this is right

    We know the athletes playing mainly for the love have sharper vision, and that sharper vision comes from having your attention focused on the activity itself. So athletes playing mainly for the love have more attention focused on the activity itself. This answer uses "concentrate on the sport" as a synonym for "attention is focused on the activity".

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

    89% picked this

  4. It is impossible for an

    Too Strong: impossible

    There was no language as extreme as impossible in this paragraph. We were talking about people playing "mainly for the love", which allows for them playing somewhat for the trophy. It seems like that suggests you can concentrate on more than one thing.

    0% picked this

  5. During athletic competitions, an athlete

    Too Strong: any

    This is also guns blazing: every single athlete who's focused on the sport itself will perform better than all those who aren't focused on the sport itself. All we know is that being focused on the sport helps with sharper vision. Sharper vision is a positive thing, but it wouldn't guarantee that you perform better than the people with less sharp vision.

    4% picked this

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