"PSA questions ask you to identify an assumption that is *almost* sufficient to conclude that the reasoning in the stimulus is valid. Alone, it can't take the argument to the point of complete validity, but it gets most of the way there."
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Good thread! I was just wondering the same . Thank god to Sage at least now I know there is a difference between sufficient and necessary assumption questions (didn't learn that in my over 1,000$ crappy test prep course).
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The implicit assumption that the psychologist is making ... personalities. But this is an assumption he/she is making! There ... time zone shift that is sufficient to making the horoscopes different ... the psychologist's initial implicit assumption.
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This is basically a conflating sufficient and necessary conditions flaw.
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