Logical Reasoning

PT159 · S1 · Q3 Hernandez: Celebrities' public pronouncements can warp

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Hernandez: Celebrities’ public pronouncements can warp a debate because people grant more weight to celebrities’ opinions than to ordinary people’s. For that reason, celebrities should avoid talking publicly about controversial issues on which they have no expertise.

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

3.

Hernandez and Liu disagree with each other about which one of the following?

  1. People grant more weight to

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. Correct

    Celebrities should avoid talking publicly

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    88% picked this

  3. Celebrities’ pronouncements on controversial issues

    Trap

    2% picked this

  4. The public should disregard what

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. Celebrities are responsible for the

    Trap

    8% picked this

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