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You're probably just overthinking it. Just focus on your fundamentals of breaking down the stimulus and don't get tripped up by obvious answers. You might have developed some bad habits in answering hard questions instead of understanding them fully. Easy questions are designed to test your fundamentals so if you are having trouble on them than maybe go back and study what makes each question type and approach unique.

Answer choice C lays outside the scope of the doctors argument since the argument is only about herbal medicines and their safety. If C had said that HERBAL medicines cause allergic reactions in people then it would have weekend the argument. I got duped by this because I assumed that C was within scope without really thinking too hard about it. An answer choice can't weaken the argument if its not even addressing the argument!

@saltysky! it did help to drill these questions and really take my time understanding the stimulus in my head. I would ID the conclusion and support, then ID the argument type and try to do a little lite diagramming to find the hole in the reasoning. After drilling SA questions a bunch I got much faster at it and can just recognize the missing piece right away on easy problems. You can do it!

@saltysky! This is for you and anyone who stumbles onto this thread. A lot of link assumption questions involve Conditional and Causal logic and require you to find the 'missing link' in the stimulus.

The lessons I found most helpful in foundations are from the "Conditional and Set Logic" module. Specifically: Sets v Conditions, Group 1 - Sufficient Condition Indicators, Group 2 - Necessary Condition Indicators, Group 3 - Negate Sufficient, Group 4 - Negate Necessary, 4 Groups of Conditional Indicators Summary, Three Formal Arguments Combined, De Morgans Law, Kick it Up, and Bi-conditionals.

I went back and redid all of these lessons and it really helped me with link assumption stimuli. Good Luck!.

I found that what helped the most is to do the SA section in the core and then go back to foundations and redo conditional and casual logic

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A. The argument is not making a comparative claim between small and large fish and the effect of algae on them

B. The answer fails to point to the reasoning flaw in the argument. The argument is saying that algae is the cause of death in THEIR pond not in general.

C. Wrong for the same reason as B. Does not point to the reasoning flaw in the argument

D. Correct because it points to the reasoning flaw. Correlation vs Causation and provides an alt hypo

E. Supports the argument by strengthening the relationship between algae and fish deaths