Self-study
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The Structure We Need to Match
Jordan presents a dilemma. A business faces two options, and both lead somewhere bad. If it invests in ecologically sound practices, its market share decreases. If it doesn't, it pollutes and wastes resources. Either way, the business loses.
Terry responds by undermining one side of the dilemma. If all businesses are held to the same environmental standard by consumers, then no particular business will be especially hurt by implementing those practices. In other words, the first bad outcome (losing market share) doesn't have to follow from investing in ecological practices.
Anticipation
We need to find an answer where Jordan presents two options that each lead to an undesirable result, and Terry responds by showing that one of those options doesn't necessarily lead to its bad result. Both parts need to match: Jordan's dilemma structure and Terry's specific way of defusing one side of it.
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This matches. Jordan presents a dilemma: rain ruins the picnic, and no rain means the garden doesn't get watered. Both options lead to something undesirable.
You might worry that this doesn't match because the stimulus uses "if...then" language while Jordan here uses "either...or." But the logical structure is the same: two exhaustive options, each with a bad outcome. Terry then defuses one side by showing that the "no rain" option doesn't have to lead to its bad result, because they can buy a hose and water the garden themselves. This parallels how Terry in the stimulus shows that investing in ecological practices doesn't have to hurt a business's market share.
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Jordan's statement doesn't match. In the stimulus, Jordan presents two options that each lead to a bad result. Here, Jordan says you can have either an enjoyable life or a long one, framing them as a tradeoff between two good things rather than a choice between two bad outcomes.
And Terry's response doesn't match either. In the stimulus, Terry shows that one side of the dilemma doesn't have to lead to its bad result under certain conditions. Here, Terry directly contradicts Jordan's claim by saying happy health-conscious people exist. That's a factual rebuttal, not a "here's how to avoid the bad outcome" response.
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Jordan's statement doesn't present a true dilemma. "If taxes are raised" and "if they're lowered" aren't the only two options, since taxes could stay the same. In the stimulus, Jordan presents genuinely exhaustive alternatives (a business either implements the practices or it doesn't). And Terry's response here offers a third option (keeping taxes the same) rather than showing that one of Jordan's options doesn't have to lead to its bad result.
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Jordan doesn't present two options that each lead to a bad result. The first part says remodeling makes the house more valuable, which is a good outcome. The downside Jordan mentions (no guarantee of getting more when selling) is a caveat attached to the same option, not a bad result of a second option. And Terry's response introduces a reason to remodel rather than defusing one side of a dilemma.
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Jordan's dilemma matches (open the spillway and risk flooding, or don't and the dam might burst). But Terry's response doesn't. Terry says there's no real danger of the dam bursting. That's a flat rejection of one of the bad outcomes. In the stimulus, Terry doesn't reject either bad outcome. Terry doesn't say "pollution won't actually happen" or "market share won't actually decrease." Instead, Terry introduces a condition (consumer demand for environmental responsibility) under which one of the bad outcomes doesn't have to follow. That's a different move: showing a way around a bad outcome versus denying it exists. On top of that, Terry here recommends one of the two options (opening the spillway), which is something Terry in the stimulus never does.