Self-study
If one has evidence that an act will benefit other people and performs that act to benefit them, then one will generally succeed in benefiting them.
Summary
The stimulus gives us a principle expressed as a conditional statement:
If you have evidence that it will benefit others and you intend it to benefit others, then an action will generally be successful in benefiting them.
Find or Complete the Application
We need to find the correct application of this conditional statement. The right answer will feature three elements:
(1) An action intended to benefit others
(2) Evidence that the action will be successful
(3) The action then likely benefiting others
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a
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Wrong trigger. Diplomatic ties could benefit others by preventing war, but the leaders didn’t pursue diplomacy to benefit others—they did it to get reelected.
b
A government study █████████ ████ █ ████████ ████████████ █████████ █████ █████ ██████ ██ ████████ █████ ████ ███████ ███████ ██ █████ ███ ██████████ ███████ ███ █████████ ███ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ████████████ ███████████ ██ ███ ███ ███████████
Wrong conclusion. We want a situation where an action is successful—not one where it isn’t. The new registration procedure failed to benefit others, so this is the opposite of what we’re looking for.
c
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Betsy had evidence from a contractor that changing the filter would improve the furnace’s efficiency, and she regularly did this for her daughter’s benefit. This benefited her daughter by removing the need to maintain the furnace, which matches our principle.
d
Sejal learned in █ ██████████ █████ ████ ███ ████ ███ ██ ████ ███████ ████████ ██ █████████ ██ ██ ████████ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ██████████ ████ █ ████████ ███████████
Wrong conclusion. The sufficient condition is satisfied since Sejal had evidence that confronting her friend would work, and she wanted to help her friend, but we don’t know whether she was successful.
e
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Wrong trigger. Zachary wanted to benefit his parents, but he had no evidence that therapy would work.