Self-study
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Summary
People have some common complaints about computers: it can be hard to correct mistakes with digital bills, and sometimes computer files get lost. On the other hand, people are really attached to some benefits of computers, like ultra-speedy searches, or the convenience of word processors over typewriters.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
The stimulus conforms to the following principles:
Sometimes, people’s complaints about a particular technology are outweighed by the benefits of that technology.
People may be unwilling to give up a particular technology even though they have some complaints about it.
The same technology can have both drawbacks and benefits.
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a
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This is strongly supported. In the stimulus, we see that people complain about computers, but even so, they would not want to live without computers. In other words, people’s complaints do not indicate that they would choose to live without computer technology.
b
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This is not supported. The stimulus never indicates a link between complaining about a technology and that technology being significant to people’s daily lives. Our only example is computers, which people do complain about, so that’s not useful here.
c
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This is not supported. We only know about one single technology, computers—that’s definitely not enough to say whether complaints are “always” an accurate measure of dependency.
d
The complaints people ████ █████ █████████████ ███████████ ███ ████ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ ███████████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ████████ █████
This is not supported. The stimulus doesn’t indicate that either people’s complaints or their choices can be used as evidence of a technology’s importance. In fact, the stimulus doesn’t mention how to determine a technology’s importance at all.
e
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This is not supported. The stimulus only offers information about computers, one single type of technology. That doesn’t give us enough information to support a principle about technology in general.