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Summary
Drug companies often send gifts to physicians when marketing their products. Most physicians believe that their choices when prescribing drugs are not influenced by drug companies’ gifts. However, most physicians also believe most other physicians’ prescription choices are influenced by such gifts.
Notable Valid Inferences
The two beliefs described can't both be true. Either at least some physicians who think that their choices aren't influenced by gifts actually are influenced by gifts, or the physicians who think most other physicians are influenced by gifts are wrong.
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a
Physicians who do ███ ██████ █████ ████ ████ █████████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ ███████████ █████ ████ █████ ███ ██ ██████ ████ ██████
Could be false. We don’t have any information in the stimulus about the likelihood of physicians prescribing unnecessary drugs to make this comparison.
b
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Could be false. We don’t have any information in the stimulus about what most physicians believe in regards to drug companies’ guidelines.
c
Some physicians are ████████ ██████ █████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ ████ ████ █████████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ████ █████ █████████ █████ ███████████
Must be true. Most physicians believe that they are not influenced by gifts. And, most physicians believe most other physicians are influenced by gifts. If the first group is correct that they are not influenced by gifts, then the second group must be wrong about their belief that most other physicians are influenced. On the other hand, if the first group is wrong, then at least some of those physicians who think they're not influenced by gifts actually are influenced by gifts.
d
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Could be false. We don’t have any information in the stimulus about physicians who admit their choices are influenced by gifts. We also don't know about a belief that some physicians are influenced to a greater degree than other physicians.
e
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Could be false. We don’t have any information in the stimulus about physicians who admit their choices are influenced by gifts.