PT125.S4.Q2

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PrepTest 125 - Section 4 - Question 2

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Kris: Years ago, the chemical industry claimed that technological progress cannot occur without pollution. ██████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████████████ █████████ ███ ████████ █████ ████████ ████████████ ███ ████████ █ ███████ ████ ██████ █████████████ █████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ████ █████████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████████ ███ ████████ ████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████

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Summarize Argument: Counter-Position

Terry concludes that Kris is “absurd” to claim that the cellular industry must be regulated the same way as the chemical industry because they both produce a form of pollution. Terry supports this position by claiming that chemical pollution is more harmful than the noise pollution produced by cell phones.

Describe Method of Reasoning

Terry counters Kris’s argument by rejecting Kris’s analogy. Kris claims that two industries should be similarly regulated by analogizing their harmful consequences, and Terry counters by claiming that the harms presented by Kris as analogous are very different in severity.

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Terry responds to Kris's argument ██ █████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

questioning the reliability ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███████ ███████████ ██ ██████ ████████

Terry doesn’t question the reliability of Kris’s information sources. All Terry questions is Kris’s use of an analogy.

attacking the accuracy ██ ███ ████████ █████ ███ ████████ ████████ ████ ████ ████ ███████

Terry doesn’t claim that Kris is making any false claims about the chemical industry, only that the analogy Kris makes between the chemical and cellular industries is weak.

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Terry doesn’t make any arguments against Kris based on wrong causality.

questioning the strength ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ██████ ████████ ██ █████

By denying that the harms of chemicals are comparable to the harms of cell phones, Terry questions the strength of the analogy that Kris uses to support the argument that chemicals and cell phones should be similarly regulated.

rejecting Kris's interpretation ██ ███ ████ ██████████████ █████████

Terry does not reject Kris’s interpretation of the term “technological progress,” or even discuss it at all.

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95% of people who answer get this correct

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138

75% 145

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Method of reasoning or descriptive

Stems that ask us to articulate, in abstract terms, the structure of the argument in the stimulus.

Stimulus Tags

Analogy

Stimuli that feature arguments by analogy, where the success or failure of that analogy informs the answer choices.

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