I think anyone who took IB English or History (maybe AP English too) would be well prepared by going back to that formulaic writing outline:

I. Intro Paragraph:

A. Hook

B. Thesis

II. Argument 1

A. Point

B. Evidence

C. Analysis

D. Repeat as needed

III. Argument 2

A. PEA (Point - Evidence - Analysis)

IV. Argument 3

A. PEA

V. Conclusion

A. Lead-in/Summary

B. Concluding statement that ties back to the thesis (without restating) with some new insight

I was between B and D, but I didn't read the first word "Most" closely. My understanding of why D is wrong is because someone caring about the show isn't the trigger for the conclusion to occur, but rather it's if we're dealing with the subset of TV shows that are dependent on ad funding and could be canceled, then the conclusion would logically occur.

That aside, does anyone have any other ways or reasons to explain why D is wrong?

Chose C because I got tempted by the clarity of the word "cause," but I understand that E just requires some translation to see that it's a pretty standard flaw for phenomenon-hypothesis questions saying it presents one explanation as the only explanation.

C vs E boils down to this for me: That E is saying the flaw is that the author "fails to consider..." while C says the flaw is that the author "confuses two things..." and it's clear that it's the former not the latter.

Building on this: My misconception that led me to choose E was based in misunderstanding what the stimulus defines the general art theory as.

The general art theory is one that explains EVERY aesthetic feature in ANY art form.

This definition is comprehensive; imagine a list of every single aesthetic feature for music, dance, pottery, painting, poetry, and so on. A long long list.

When I chose E, I was incorrectly thinking that the general art theory synthesized the universal aspects among all these art types; distilling, not comprehensive. But imagine now how short that list would be, if only the aesthetics that are shared in common with EVERY art form? Might not even be any! That's why E is wrong. The aesthetics on this list don't need to be shared with any other art forms'.

Meanwhile, D is right because of a gap in the argument that I missed - the author assumes that music is art without stating it explicitly. Might be a bit of a groaner or thinking that's self-evident, but drawing that link from music to art makes D the right choice.

Back to the list idea to prove D right: if the premodern general theory kept off all the aesthetic attributes that music had from the list, then it failed to achieve its purpose of being comprehensive of every aesthetic feature in any art form - UNLESS music is not art!!!! then it's okay to keep it off the list.

Realization/summary that further supports why D is the correct answer:

In the stimulus study - Group A watched other people, Group B watched themselves. In answer choice D, identical twins watched the other twin. In answer choice D-world, there is a chance that they thought they were watching themselves and over-reported, which weakens the likelihood that Group A's results are accurate and weakens the stimulus conclusion that watching yourself increases exercise time. There is also a chance they thought they were watching their twin, and over-reported, which weakens the likelihood of accuracy in Group B, the control group in the stimulus study. So either way, D hits that it is likely that either the variable or control group over-reported in a similar study. That is complex!!

I'm glad to get to this lesson, I was feeling a bit frustrated at just rote memorization and felt more successful when I asked myself the prompt "Does A guarantee B?" I wish this concept was brought up earlier in this module!