The mind and the immune system

Answer choices

1. A

   Trap0% picked this

   Good deeds must be based on

   Too Strong (must) / Out of Scope (motives) We can infer that there's some overlap between good deeds and magnanimus behavior, but we can't infer what good deeds must be, nor do we have any info on motives that would let us make this inference.

   0%
2. B

   Trap1% picked this

   Lack of magnanimity is the cause of most

   Too Strong (most serious) / Unsupported Causal Relationship We have no info about the causes of most serious illnesses that would allow us to make this inference.

   1%
3. C

   Unsupported Causal Relationship / Scope (brain chemicals)15% picked this

   Magnanimous behavior can be regulated by the presence or absence of certain chemicals

   We have no info about what regulates magnanimous behavior or about brain chemicals that would allow us to make this inference.

   15%
4. D

   Correct73% picked this

   Magnanimity is beneficial to one’s own

   Why this is right

   What do we know abouf Magnanimity? It stimulates immune cells and is an example of something good for your immune system. Is that enough to support that it's beneficial to our own interests? Sure. You need some common sense to connect the dots between benefiting your immune system and benefitting you and your interests, but sometimes we need a little common sense to make a Most Supported answer work.

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

   73%
5. E

   Too Strong (radically) / Unsupported Causal Relationship11% picked this

   The number of white blood cells will increase radically if behavior

   We're told magnanimous behavior can stimulate the cells, but not that it could incerease the number of cells, and certainly not that it could do so radically if the behavior was consistent. That's too strong all around.

   11%