Self-study
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Summary
The argument concludes that, when their respective work is being evaluated, engineers are usually calm but artists are usually anxious. Why would this be? Because it’s easy to tell when a machine is working, but it’s difficult to tell when an artwork is excellent.
Notable Assumptions
The argument assumes that people become more anxious when their work requires subtle judgement to evaluate, compared to when it’s easy to evaluate. That’s the only way the premise about how easy machines and artworks are to evaluate can support the conclusion about engineers’ and artists’ anxiety levels.
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This isn’t triggered by the premise about how easy it is to evaluate machines versus artworks. It also doesn’t lead to the conclusion of artists having greater evaluation anxiety.
b
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This isn’t triggered, it has nothing to do with how easy it is to evaluate machines versus artworks. It also doesn’t lead to the correct conclusion, or even mention anxiety at all.
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This isn’t triggered by the argument, nor does it bridge to the right conclusion. Talking about how different works “should” be evaluated is totally irrelevant.
d
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This affirms the argument’s assumption, telling us that people with easier-to-evaluate work (i.e. engineers) will be less anxious than people with harder-to-evaluate work (i.e. artists).
e
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This leads to the wrong conclusion—the argument isn’t concerned with how the people evaluating different works feel, only the people who actually created the work.