Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT7 S1 Q22 Explanation

There is a widespread belief

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Stimulus

There is a widespread belief that people can predict impending earthquakes from unusual animal behavior. Skeptics claim that this belief is based on selective coincidence: people whose dogs behaved oddly just before an earthquake will be especially likely to remember that fact. some of the world’s dogs will be behaving oddly.

What this question is testing

Evaluate

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.

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The question
22.

Clarification of which one of the following issues would be most important to an evaluation of

Answer choices

  1. Trap0% picked this

    Which is larger, the number of skeptics or the number of people who believe that animal

  2. Trap2% picked this

    Are there means other than the observation of animal behavior that nonscientists can use

  3. Trap13% picked this

    Are there animals about whose behavior people know too little to be able to distinguish

  4. Trap15% picked this

    Are the sorts of behavior supposedly predictive of earthquakes as pronounced in dogs as they

  5. Correct69% picked this

    Is the animal behavior supposedly predictive of earthquakes specific to impending earthquakes or can it be any

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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