PT132.S4.Q24

PrepTest 132 - Section 4 - Question 24

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In a recent study of arthritis, researchers tried but failed to find any correlation between pain intensity and any of those features of the weather—humidity, temperature swings, barometric pressure—usually cited by arthritis sufferers as the cause of their increased pain. █████ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████ █ ███████████ ████ ██████ ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ████ ████████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ ███ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ████ █████ ████████

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The stimulus discusses a study where researchers tried and failed to find any correlation between pain intensity in arthritis sufferers and various weather features (humidity, temperature swings, barometric pressure). Arthritis sufferers in the study who believed in such a correlation gave widely varying accounts of the time delay between the weather change and the increased pain.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

There is no correlation between weather features and pain intensity.

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24.

Of the following, which one ████ █████████ █████████ ███ █████████

a

indicates that the ███████ ███████ ████ █████████ █████████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ████ █████ █████████ █████████

b

indicates that arthritis ██████████ ███████ █████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████ ███ ██████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ████

c

suggests that arthritis █████████ ███ █████████ ███ ███████████ ████ ██████ ██ █████

d

suggests that some ██████ ███ ████ ███████████ ██ ███████████████ █████████ ████ ████ ███ ██████

e

suggests that the ██████████ █████████████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████ ███████ ███ █████████ ████ ██ ██████████

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