PT11.S4.Q18

PrepTest 11 - Section 4 - Question 18

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Journalism Has Other Requirements, Bro

Here are the stimulus’ core claims distilled:

Teacher’s Claim: Getting published requires at least one of three things – plausibility, originality, or interest.
Student’s Premise: Invented stories can easily achieve any of those three things.
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Student’s Conclusion: Stories don’t need to be real [to be published].

We can see the flaw in the student’s reasoning through two lenses. First, the student confuses necessity for sufficiency: just because fulfilling one of those three factors is necessary for a story to get published doesn’t mean fulfilling those factors suffices to get a story published.

Alternatively (and this is the lens our correct answer uses), the student treats the named factors as the only factors: just because we’ve laid out a few necessary factors doesn’t mean there aren’t other necessary factors as well.

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18.

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a

A journalist undermines ███ ██ ███ ███ ████████████ ████████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███████████ ██████████ █████ ███ █████ ██████████ ██ █ █████ ███████ ███ ████████ ███ █████ ████████████ ███████████ ██ █████

b

Statements that are ██████████ ██ █ █████ ██████████ ██████ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ████████ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███████████ ██ ███████ █████████ ███ ████████████

c

Reported statements that ███ ██████ ████████ ████ █████ ████ ███████████ ██████ █████████ ██ █ ██████████ ███ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ████████ █████

d

Reputable journalists sometimes ██ ███ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████ █████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███████ ██ █████████ ████ ███ ███████

e

Journalists who have ███████ ██████ ██ ███████ █████ ████████ ████ ████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██████ ██ █████ ███████████

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