Anyone else get confused by the beginning of the stimulus? "Before last year's community clean up..." So up until last year? I may be brain fried but this confused me.

AC C negated reads as: If a drug made a difference in the duration of vertigo, a three-month shortage of that drug would not have caused a significant change in the average duration of vertigo.

If this is true, the premise in the argument is not enough to prove the conclusion. Why? Because if you plug in this negated AC, you cannot prove that no significant chance in the average duration = no effect at all.

I need to start trusting my gut. This seemed so straight forward that I second guessed my answer choice.

Ugh. I was annoyed by this question. I didn't choose AC B b/c that results in you assuming top graduates are skilled workers? Like what if you graduate but have no relevant work experience/skills needed for the job? I get it. But isn't this AC a bit of a stretch? Maybe I'm being too technical.

welp.

Thanks for this. That's how i understood it in my brain and selected AC C.

This is a causal argument. Causal arguments will present a phenomenon followed by a hypothesis/conclusion.

Ways to weaken a Causal Relationship:

- Introduce an alternative explanation (it wasn't the chocolate, but something else)

- Show an example of same cause different effect (ppl were given chocolate the second time and this time tasted the differences)

- Show an example of a different cause, same effect (ppl were given creamer and couldn't taste the difference, idk if this works here, but still putting this strategy out there lol)

interested!

#help Can someone explain why answer choice E is wrong? I was stuck between C and E, but ultimately went with answer choice E. My thought process: If people with Arthritis are less likely to drink a certain type of coffee (say regular coffee), that could explain why they are drinking decaffeinated coffee. Perhaps it isn't that people who drink decaffeinated coffee are more likely to develop arthritis, but that people with arthritis are simply more likely to drink decaffeinated coffee.

I'm confused, I thought for weakening questions you attack the premise, not the conclusion...ugh.