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How come we assume that an ambiguous question is a poorly phrased one?

@lyriclamagdelaine I'm not a tutor, but I think a good way is to keep in mind what each question type is. For this question, it's a "resolve the discrepancy", which means you could choose any of the ACs as long as if they resolved the inconsistency (meaning they can totally bring up something not mentioned in the stimulus.)

The reason why this is allowed is because it's also a common flaw you'll see: the false dichotomy. For this problem, we might falsely believe that sponsorship can ONLY come from private or public funding. But the correct answer proves to us that there's actually a THIRD source (the artists themselves eating the cost of their work) that we didn't account for, and could totally explain the discrepancy.

So thus, you can think of these question types as "oh, I hadn't thought of that!" I believe "strengthen" is one as well. I highly recommend reading "The Loophole", as it goes into great detail about Powerful/Provable question types and identifying when you can go outside of the stimulus info.

I chose "C" but I realized now why I was wrong:

"D" is a better answer than C because it is actually proving that merely switching up your diet isn't guaranteed to make you lose weight. The people in answer choice D likely switched up their diet but ate at a calorie surplus, disproving the fact that this diet itself is guaranteed to make you lose weight.

"C" is wrong because the stimulus never argued that exercise wasn't a factor in weight loss. The stimulus is focused solely on whether the diet itself will help you lose weight. You can't compare one group on one diet with another group whose diet is completely different to prove that the diet doesn't work.

i didn't choose C because I assumed that more anglers = more competition = less fish being caught per fisherman. but this was incorrect to assume because stimulus is about the overall number of fish, and more fisherman should presumably lead to more fish being caught overall