Audiologist: What is often considered

Answer choices

1. A

   No Impact0% picked this

   Ancient medical texts describe methods of treating

   We're trying to investigate the cause of hearing loss. We don't care what treatments exist.

   0%
2. B

   Correct95% picked this

   Among remote populations, those people who lived for several years in urban areas show more age-related hearing loss than those who have

   Why this is right

   This just adds more plausibility to the Author's Explanation that exposure to loud noise is the causal difference-maker that explains hearing loss. We nerds would call this answer "More Cause, More Effect", because it's showing data points that show the more someone was exposed to the supposed Cause, the more they exhibited the supposed Effect. And because this answer isn't comparing City Folk to Remote Folk, it's comparing "Remote Folk who spent some time in the noisy city" to "Remote Folk who never spent time in the noisy city", it's controlling for a lot of other potential alternate causes. They're essentially the same group of people, except for the variable of spending some time in the noisy city, and the ones exposed to the noise had more hearing loss.

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

   95%
3. C

   Out of Scope: awareness1% picked this

   Those who live in urban areas typically become so accustomed to low-level background noise that they are unaware

   We don't care whether people are aware of the noise or not; we just care whether it's adding up to cause them hearing loss when they're older.

   1%
4. D

   No Impact: effects of hearing loss0% picked this

   Age-related hearing loss can make it difficult for people to participate in conversations that occur in social settings with more

   We care about what's causing hearing loss, not what the effects of hearing loss are.

   0%
5. E

   Unclear Impact3% picked this

   Those who work in environments in which they are regularly exposed to loud noise tend not to wear ear protection

   This is just establishing that some people definitely live lives that expose them to noise, but we weren't ever doubting that. This answer doesn't have any clear impact without it telling us how prevalent hearing loss was or wasn't among this group exposed to loud noise.

   3%