@Allen_the_Alien +1 to the quick read of the stem and thinking it was SA. On second look its asking for a rule without which the argument can't work, not that it would guarantee the concl.

My issue here was that I didn't pull "mathematically representing" into the second and third sentences. Why should I take the second sentence as talking about mathematical representation?

From my read, we don't know anything about N-EG except that it is much more useful in "developing certain areas of scientific theory." And even though I actually know that N-EG involves math, this didn't cue me to carry over the idea. I read B and thought it was a trap answer because of that. C still felt shakey because of "complete."

@Dylanoc90 It came back on for a little while and is back to "Sorry, something went wrong..."

happening to me too

This Q is categorized in the analytics just as Strengthen - the stem seems clearly PSAr and the explanation starts by saying it is PSA...

I chose D, but it took me a while. I eventually landed on how D brings the argument/experiment/study further away from the ideal experiment.

If one experimental group is so much larger (D says a large automobile is "far more likely" to be in the experiment/study than a small automobile) than the other, it is an easy place to point to for weakening an argument.

The other ACs just don't get there. So I POEd my way to D.

Tutors! Did I do a great job here or did I get lucky??

@Daisy228 mine had a little arrow underneath the stim I had to click, then they popped up.

So - is it safe to say that if we see things like "it is absurd to (blank)" in a conditional reasoning question, like in B and E, that we can usually throw that answer out?