NA is REQUIRED for the argument to be able to function without dying. SA strengthens the argument and prevents weakening of the argument.

#help Why are we assuming that the total amount of coal mined is constant and carries over? This is where this question totally loses me because nothing in the stimulus states that explicitly and it seems like a large assumption to make....

Sneaky answer choice A got me in my initial answer and my blind review answer. Very quickly looked over AC C, but looking at the explanation, I realize why C is a necessary assumption. Since counseling is shared by both groups, it is clear that what must be powerful tools to help quit smoking are hatha yoga and self-help. If they were not both powerful tools, then it calls into question whether or not hatha yoga is actually a powerful tool (because then it could be true that it's actually the counseling that's the powerful tool). A is appealing, but it leaves open the possibility that counseling was a powerful tool for the self-help group, which is not necessary for the original claim.

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The issue I had with AC B was that the assumption seemed to be a bigger assumption to me. I also thought C looked suspect, but settled on B. C is the right answer bc it doesn't actually add support for the answer. It simply tells us that there is no correlation between doctor's prestige and patient recovery rate. This doesn't actually explain why the smaller hospitals have a higher recovery rate than larger hospitals.

Right Answer→ descriptively accurate and describes the flaw

/descriptively accurate or /describe the flaw→/Right Answer

Diagramming would have been helpful on this game. I failed to recognize that the phrases "as may happen in summer" and "remains quite strong during winter months" were suggestions. Instead, I took them as concrete indicators that about the summer and the winter and wrote them as conditionals. Major facepalm. Because of that error, I selected E. Looking back and diagramming, it is abundantly clear why D is the correct answer. Diagramming would have been helpful on this game. I failed to recognize that the phrases "as may happen in summer" and "remains quite strong during winter months" were suggestions. Instead, I took them as concrete indicators that about the summer and the winter and wrote them as conditionals. Major facepalm. Because of that error, I selected E. Looking back and diagramming, it is abundantly clear why D is the correct answer.

Initially, I chose C and then changed my answer to D. D is irrelevant because it does not actually weaken the argument. The fact that the children were in a context that makes them excited and active has no net effect on the argument. It doesn't even mention hyperactivity. My true error was not reading this question correctly. What made me move from C to D was the mention of a "sugar substitute." Because I didn't read the question carefully enough, I missed the "sugar substitute" mention in the text, which prevented me from selecting C. The sugar substitute weakens the argument bc it calls into question whether a sugar substitute can have the same impact on hyperactivity as sugar.