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Hi you're exactly right with this interpretation. The group 3 conditional indicator means that an already negated sentence after the negate necessary becomes positive (unnegated), making the sentence: If profits increase, the traffic will decrease. My difficulty was creating this conditional chain under timed conditions.
The correct choice was B, I selected D. I found this statement really difficult to understand and even my BR took a while to do so if anyone can offer helpful tips on how they approached this question that would be greatly appreciated.
My reason for selecting the answer choice I did was because I made an assumption in the archaeologist's argument, I also confused myself with the grammar inside the stimulus.
This is how I am now understanding the question:
Treasure Hunter: Because of the rule, treasure hunters are entitled to what they retrieve since they are risking their lives. Since the rule applies, the ship is in peril. This condition must be met for the rule to apply.
Archeologist: They are not entitled to what they retrieve, the shipwrecks are stablized, the only danger they are exposed to is that of previous archaeologists and therefore are not in peril (implicitly stated). They are not in peril because for the rule to be met this condition must also be met, in this case it is not.
What they disagree about is whether or not the ship is in peril (B)
TH says this rule can be applied to a sunken ship. Implicitly saying that it is still in peril
A says nothing about the rule and only speaks about whether the treasure hunters are actually entitled to the artifacts or not. But since they are not entitled to the artifacts, the ship is not in peril.
(D) is incorrect because:
TH: agrees with the statement by saying even though they have sunk, treasure hunters are still entitled to what they discover because they risk their lives
A: Though they still risk their lives, they are only risking their lives because of other treasure hunters, not because the ship is in peril. But they make no mention about whether maritime law can be applied
Have you only tried this method in BR or during drills and PT's first. I feel like im too slow in figuring this out
I misread the question stem and thought it was a MSS question. Lesson learned.
Totally, I find it so easy to do though. Time and time again I have to write "don't make assumptions" to myself. I'm hopeful that overtime I can break this habit
Absolutely, studying drawing links between words chosen in the stimulus and answer choice really helps me to find the answer choice as well
I'm really glad this was covered in a lesson because I know this type of question with a "less than ideal" answer would have tripped me up.
To help poke a hole in answer E I thought that "their claims" was too broad. How do we know that is is exactly the claim spoken about in the stimulus. This helped me cross it off and realize it was wrong. An answer choice like this would have tripped me up a lot more earlier in my prep
I found myself making that assumption as well until I reminded myself to stay grounded to the stimulus. Once I did that I realized that him being able to rent from the Walnut Lane location meant that he was not a member of the club. I just try to keep reminding myself these small habits of not making assumptions and staying grounded to the stimulus, I still forget from time to time, but I am trying to make these thing second nature to myself.